chain analysis
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Tracing cryptocurrency flows across a public blockchain to follow the money.
Because most blockchains are public and permanent, transactions can be clustered and followed, which is how investigators unwind laundering despite mixers. It is the defender's and regulator's side of the same ledger the darkweb relies on.
Also known as: chain-analysis, blockchain forensics, on-chain analysis