Chain Trace Labs is a blockchain forensics platform for firms, investigators, compliance teams, and fraud victims who need more than a wallet screenshot. We turn complex on-chain movement into traceable, explainable, action-ready evidence.
Why teams choose us
Visitors need to understand quickly that Chain Trace Labs is not a thin explorer wrapper. It is a case system built to help legal, recovery, compliance, and investigative teams actually do the work after the trace is found.
Reports, chain-of-custody records, preservation drafts, and legal-facing outputs are structured to hold up in real review environments.
Freeze workflows, LE packages, wallet monitoring, evidence handling, and case intelligence sit alongside tracing so the investigator can keep moving.
Victims get clearer guidance and cleaner reporting. Firms get deeper workflow control. The forensic standard underneath both stays rigorous.
The gap between knowing where the money went and proving it to a legal standard -- that is where most crypto fraud cases go to die. We built ChainTrace to close that gap.
ChainTrace -- founding principle
For firms and agencies
For victims and counsel
We provide forensic-grade blockchain intelligence to the professionals who investigate crypto crime. Our platform traces fund flows, screens wallets, and produces the legal documentation that turns raw on-chain data into evidence that holds up under scrutiny.
Cryptocurrency does not stay on one blockchain. Funds move between networks, through bridges, across wallets spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON, Solana and beyond. We trace that full journey -- automatically, across all supported networks -- so investigators see the complete picture, not a fragment of it.
The depth of tracing and the legal rigour of the output matter. We focus on both.
Every wallet encountered during a trace is screened against international sanctions lists, known high-risk infrastructure, and our proprietary risk database. We identify exposure that first-hop screening misses -- the indirect connections that carry legal risk but remain invisible to standard tools.
Risk scoring is documented and methodologically transparent. We explain how we reached the assessment, not just what it is.
Raw trace data is not enough. We generate the structured documentation that actually moves cases forward -- the exchange correspondence, regulatory filings, and legal annexes that translate forensic findings into actionable steps. The output is designed to be used by a solicitor, a compliance officer, or a law enforcement officer without translation.
We apply a documented, reproducible forensic methodology to every investigation. Audit logs, chain-of-custody records, and methodology statements are produced alongside every report. The result is evidence that can be explained, challenged, and defended -- in court, before a regulator, or in a compliance audit.
This is the difference between a screenshot of a blockchain explorer and a forensic report.
Our position
The blockchain forensics market was built for governments and tier-one financial institutions. We built ChainTrace for everyone else who needs it.
Enterprise-grade blockchain analytics platforms are extraordinary tools. They are also priced at $50,000 to $200,000 per year, require dedicated analyst teams to operate, and are designed around the needs of national agencies and global banks. The fraud victim, the small law firm, the regional police financial crime unit, the mid-sized exchange compliance team -- none of them fit that model.
ChainTrace was designed from the ground up for that majority. Professional forensic capability, accessible at the scale and price point that reflects how most cryptocurrency investigations actually happen -- one case at a time, under time pressure, with a team of one or two people who cannot afford to wait six weeks for a specialist contractor to become available.
Accessibility does not mean compromise on quality. Our forensic methodology, our legal output standards, and our approach to evidence admissibility are the same regardless of whether the client is an individual fraud victim or a compliance team at a regulated exchange. The standard is the standard.
Three principles underpin every forensic report we produce. They are not marketing language. They are the operational constraints that make the output usable in the settings where it matters most.
Principle one
A forensic report is only as valuable as its ability to withstand challenge. We build our methodology around reproducibility -- the same input will produce the same output, every time, with the same documented rationale for every decision made during the trace.
Speed matters in an investigation. But a report that cannot be replicated under cross-examination is worse than useless -- it actively damages the case. We refuse to trade methodological rigour for faster delivery.
Principle two
Crypto investigations fail at the point where the money crossed a blockchain boundary, moved through an intermediate wallet, or touched a mixing service. We built ChainTrace to trace through those points -- not stop at them.
Eight networks. Fifty hops. Every intermediate wallet screened. The coverage is not a product differentiator. It is a forensic requirement -- because criminals do not stay on one chain.
Principle three
A forensic report that cannot be submitted to a court, filed as a SAR, or sent to an exchange compliance team has failed its purpose -- regardless of how technically thorough the underlying trace was.
Every ChainTrace report is structured around what the recipient needs to do next. The evidence is formatted, the methodology is documented, the next-step documents are pre-drafted. The investigator's job is to investigate. Our job is to make sure the output is immediately actionable.
Platform scale
ChainTrace operates across two tracks: individual fraud victims who need professional forensic evidence, and professional teams who conduct blockchain investigations at volume. The forensic output standard is identical on both tracks.
Whether you are running one case or a hundred, whether you represent an individual victim or an enforcement agency -- the forensic capability is the same, and the output will hold.