Blockchain Tracing and Crypto Evidence Analysis

When You Need a Clearer Account of the Transfers

Start with the Question the Report Must Answer

Before recommending a full trace, we establish whether you need to explain a transfer, identify a potential receiving service, document a loss or support an existing investigation. This determines the scope and whether the likely value of further analysis justifies its cost.

Europol’s report on tracing cryptocurrency flows describes how blockchain analysis and information held by service providers can support investigations. We assess which of those sources are available and relevant to your matter.

The agreed scope identifies the networks, starting transactions, period and reporting purpose. Any specialist work, report updates or additional networks are confirmed before that work begins.

What Your Evidence Package Contains

The report should let a reviewer follow the reasoning back to its sources. Depending on the agreed scope, P&P prepares or coordinates the following work and deliverables.

Every Material Finding Needs a Basis

Observed data: the transactions and records directly reviewed, with their sources and collection dates.

Analytical conclusions: how connections or service labels were assessed, including assumptions and uncertainty.

Unresolved questions: information unavailable from the public blockchain or not established by the supplied evidence.

We identify the sources and methods used in the agreed analysis. Where a specialist contributes a technical report, its authorship, scope and limitations should be clear. A visual map is supported by transaction references and explanatory notes.

Get a Free Blockchain Tracing Assessment

You can commission a defined analysis without committing to litigation. Platform submissions, court work, expert testimony and ongoing monitoring are separate services unless expressly included.

Preparing Findings for Use in Europe

Eurojust’s Cybercrime Judicial Monitor on cooperation with crypto-asset service providers highlights the importance of explaining tracing methods and reliability, alongside obtaining information from providers. We prepare the evidence with its intended recipient in mind.

An exchange, investigator and court may require different supporting material. If court use is contemplated, we assess local evidential requirements and whether a separately instructed expert is needed. The applicable authority or court determines the report’s evidential weight and admissibility.

A provider lead can support a targeted notification or request to preserve records. Disclosure of customer information, restrictions on assets and their return require the appropriate provider process or legal authority.

Evidence to Provide at Each Stage

For the Free Preliminary Assessment

Send your country, the approximate amount and asset, the date of the incident and a short explanation of what happened. Include a transaction hash or wallet address with the network, if known, plus the relevant platform or website. Tell us whether you need the report for a provider, police, a lawyer or an internal review.

An incomplete file is enough to ask about scope. The preliminary assessment is not a completed tracing investigation.

For the Full Analysis

Keep original files where available and record when and how they were obtained. Share working copies, preserve timestamps and identify any corrections or annotations. We document the material received and flag gaps that could affect later use.

If the Incident Is Still Developing

Europol’s crime reporting guidance directs victims to local or national police. You can report promptly and supplement the evidence later; commissioning a private report should not delay an urgent notification to the genuine provider or authorities.

P&P will never need your seed phrase, private key, exchange password, 2FA code or full remote access to your device.

What the Findings Can Support

Analysis may establish a transaction sequence, identify a possible service-provider contact or clarify which additional records are needed. It may also show that the available trail ends without a useful next step.

An address label does not establish the identity of its user. Transfers into a custodial service may require internal account records to follow further, while mixers, privacy features and movement between networks can limit reliable conclusions. A visible balance does not prove that assets are legally attributable to your loss or available for recovery.

Results depend on the available data, transaction complexity, timing, jurisdiction and provider cooperation. P&P cannot guarantee identification of a person, recovery of assets or an exact timeframe.

This service focuses on transaction analysis and evidence preparation. Recovery proceedings, a broader AML documentation response or lost wallet access require a separate scope.