• Chainalysis and Deloitte announced a partnership to help governments fight crypto-related crimes.
• The partnership aims to address the challenge of obtaining information from foreign exchanges, inconsistent policies across government agencies, and the continuous evolution of digital assets.
• Chainalysis will provide its blockchain data platform, analytics software and training program while Deloitte will provide risk, compliance and investigation services.

Chainalysis Teams Up With Deloitte To Surveil the Blockchain

Chainanalysis and accounting giant Deloitte have partnered up to help governments with blockchain surveillance. Announced during the Chainalysis Trace DC event, the alliance aims to provide collaborative solutions that identify transformation gaps in order to increase mission success at enterprise scale while mitigating risk and increasing revenue for law enforcement agencies, regulators, and financial ecosystem players around the country.

Objectives of Partnership

The partnership targets government agencies facing hurdles in fighting crypto-related crimes by helping them investigate obfuscation techniques like chain-hopping, mixers, and decentralized finance (DeFi), as well as illicit use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), tokens, and stablecoins. The team-up also follows money both from fiat to crypto (and vice versa) in order to identify potential money laundering activities.

Providing Solutions

Chainalysis will work with Deloitte’s blockchain and digital asset practice across cryptocurrency and digital asset risk, analytics, investigation, anti-money laundering/know your customer (AML/KYC), and regulatory compliance. As part of their collaboration they will be providing their blockchain dataset, analytics software and training program as well as risk assessment services which include investigations into illegal activities such as money laundering or terrorist financing using cryptocurrencies or digital assets.

Benefits for Law Enforcement Agencies

according to Chainalysis President Thomas Stanley “For law enforcement agencies…the alliance offers new collaborative solutions that help identify transformation gaps accelerate mission success at enterprise scale…” The goal is for these solutions to allow law enforcement agencies better access to information related cryptocurrency activities in order to reduce crime rates throughout different countries around the world.

Conclusion

This newly formed partnership between Chainalysis & Deloitte provides an innovative solution for tackling crypto related crimes by combining both companies capabilities & resources together in order to better equip law enforcement with necessary tools needed for combating these types of criminal activities on a global level