We investigate crypto crime and write down what we find
Chain Fraud Watch is an on-chain investigation practice. We take thefts, fraud operations and laundering analysis, for four kinds of client: people whose funds were taken, platforms handling an exploit or an exposure question, lawyers and insurers who need it proved, and journalists documenting an operation.
The record is public and almost nobody reads it
Crypto crime leaves a complete record. Every hop a thief takes, every deposit a scam collects, every stage of a laundering chain is written down permanently and visible to anyone willing to follow it carefully.
What people get instead is usually nothing actionable. A victim gets a police report nobody can work from. A platform gets an incident and no idea how much of what it received is dirty. A lawyer gets a client's account and no evidence. Nobody has established where the money went, who the operation belongs to, or how the proceeds were washed.
That is the gap we fill. We establish the path, name what the evidence supports, and hand over a document that survives scrutiny. We also say plainly when a trail has gone cold and further work is not worth paying for.
How we decide what goes in a report
Sourced or omitted
Every factual claim ties to a transaction hash, an address, or a timestamped capture. Inference is labelled as inference, with its confidence stated.
Honest about limits
Some funds are gone. Some attribution never firms up beyond a cluster. We say so in writing rather than selling another phase of work.
Four roles, one case file
Case lead
Owns the case, decides what is worth pursuing, and is the person you actually speak to.
Tracing analyst
Builds the fund path and the address inventory, reconciles chain crossings, and works out the laundering stages.
OSINT analyst
Works the off-chain side: platform accounts, handles, promotion, captures, public filings.
Reporting
Turns the working papers into the report and address inventory you receive, written for whoever will try to poke holes in it.
What we commit to, in writing
Chain of custody
Evidence is captured with timestamps and hashes as we go, so its provenance is checkable later.
Data handling
Case material is held only as long as the matter needs it, and we tell you what we keep and where.
Conflict checks
We check for conflicts before accepting a case and disclose any adjacent work on the other side.
Scope and fees, agreed first
Individuals are priced per case; platforms can retain us. Every engagement ends in a written report and an address inventory. Expert declarations and briefings to platforms or law enforcement are scoped separately, only where a case needs them.
Tell us what happened and what you have
Recent cases are easier to follow, but older ones are still worth establishing. Either way we tell you what can and cannot be proved, and what it will cost, before you commit.