Crystal Intelligence
Crystal Intelligence provides transaction monitoring and analysis for financial institutions
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Binance hack: what we know & what teams should do now
By Nicholas Smart Chief Intelligence Office, Crystal Share via: On October 29, 2026, starting at 20:20 UTC, wallets that Crystal attributes to Binance sent billions of dollars in crypto assets out on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other chains in the Binance hack. Binance said on X that…
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What is verified attribution?
By the Crystal Intelligence Team Share via: Verified attribution is evidence tying an address to a real-world identity, checked against the physical world and open to inspection. It is the difference between knowing who is behind an address and guessing who might be behind it.…
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From alert to decision: context in crypto transaction monitoring
By the Crystal Intelligence Team Share via: Crypto transaction monitoring checks every blockchain address and transfer a firm touches, continuously, for exposure to sanctions, fraud, and other illicit activity. Most teams already run crypto transaction monitoring, and most teams…
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How a $207K BiFi exploit created $3.69T in USDT volume
By Hannah Curtis Crystal Foresight Product Leader Share via: On Saturday, October 17, USDT moved $3.69T. That is 35 times its busiest day since April and 20 times the amount of USDT in circulation. Crystal Foresight flagged the spike as soon as the data landed. No legitimate…
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How cross-chain bridge exploits happen
By the Crystal Intelligence Team Share via: In April 2026, an attacker forged one cross-chain message and walked away with $292M from Kelp DAO’s bridge, the largest DeFi exploit of the year so far. It was one of several. Crystal’s published analysis of stolen crypto withdrawal…
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AI in crypto compliance: from scoring to deciding
By the Crystal Intelligence Team Share via: Key takeaways Scoring-era AI in crypto compliance gives you a conclusion but not the evidence behind it, so it cannot be defended to a regulator or reused in a report. Decision-era AI reads the full on-chain record and returns a…
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What the blockchain intelligence evidence standard requires
By Nick Smart Chief Intelligence Officer at Crystal Intelligence Share via: Key takeaways Blockchain intelligence contains two different things: consistent on-chain facts and probabilistic inferences from clustering heuristics, and only corroborated findings meet the bar of…
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Who moved stablecoins in Q3
By Hannah Curtis Crystal Foresight Product Leader Share via: Stablecoin supply grew less than 1% in the third quarter of 2026, but the largest holders were busy underneath. RLUSD grew 59%. Exchanges cut billions of dollars of USDT and added other stablecoins, many of them backed…
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Faster graph Investigations and PDF export in Crystal Expert: September 2026 update
By the Crystal Product Team Share via: Investigations grow into large graphs, and large graphs cost time: re-arranging objects after every addition, chasing cross-graph links that turn out to be irrelevant, and stitching screenshots together to share the result. September’s…
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UK Russia sanctions crypto: what compliance teams need to know
By the Crystal Intelligence Team Share via: On October 8, 2026, the UK added 38 names to its Russia sanctions list, and five of them sit on crypto rails. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) designated three crypto exchanges and two payment platforms that it…