DarkBlue at Trace DC 2025: Crypto Attribution Meets Dark Web OSINT

At Trace DC 2025, DarkBlue joined a community of investigators, analysts, and regulators working to disrupt financial crime in the crypto ecosystem. From federal law enforcement to commercial banks, attendees shared

Throughout the conference, the DarkBlue team met with public and private sector partners focused on attribution, compliance, and proactive threat detection. As a dark web intelligence platform integrated with Chainalysis and other blockchain tools, we help fill in the missing context—linking wallet activity to threat actor chatter, leaked data, and behaviors from closed community spaces like Telegram.

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Crucial Deep & Dark Web Trends for Crypto Risk Teams

In her session, "Crucial Deep & Dark Web Trends for Crypto Risk Teams," Head of DarkBlue, Cory Everington, outlined how ransomware groups, fraud operators, and money launderers are adapting across hidden platforms. From ransomware crews to crypto launderers, threat actors are getting smarter and harder to detect. The talk emphasized how financial crime teams can stay ahead of these actors by understanding their evolving tactics—and how DarkBlue equips teams with the intelligence to respond.

An Intelligence Force Multiplier for Blockchain Analysis

Chainalysis and similar platforms are invaluable for tracing wallet movements. But identifying who’s behind the activity often requires a second layer: dark web and closed-community intelligence. That’s where DarkBlue comes in.

By surfacing relevant chatter, leaked data, and aliases linked to on-chain activity, we help uncover who might be behind suspicious transactions. We monitor deep and dark web communities to provide crucial identity context—aliases, behaviors, data leaks, and conversations that tie to wallet addresses or criminal infrastructure.

It’s the layer of intel that helps compliance teams, crypto risk analysts, and law enforcement make faster, more confident decisions.

A (Mostly) Serious Conversation Starter

We also handed out bags of chocolate “crypto” to underscore a key point: laundering crypto may be easy for threat actors, but tracing it doesn’t have to be hard. A lighthearted giveaway helped spark real conversations around one of the hardest challenges in the space—and how tools like DarkBlue can make a difference.

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