AI-native automation
No reliance on manual forensic tracing. We scale investigative capacity without expanding analyst headcount.
● AI-native blockchain intelligence
Trace illicit funds.
Automatically.
Sapphire Trace maps the movement of illicit cryptocurrency using frontier AI, machine learning and graph neural networks to surface the networks legacy tools miss.
Law enforcement
Government & public sector
Law firms & private investigators
VASPs
Web3 & DeFi
The era of fraud
Roughly 1% of all crypto transactions are illicit. Almost none are traced.
$154B
received by illicit addresses in 2025
↑ 162% on 2024
1M+
illicit transactions per day
$17.8B
blockchain-intelligence market by 2034 · 22% CAGR
Core capabilities
AI for human good.
We build frontier technology for the people who stop crime.
Frontier AI
Large language models contextualise unstructured threat data and transaction patterns, reading intent beyond ledgers. Autonomous agents do the mechanical work of an investigation.
Advanced Machine Learning
Advanced machine learning, including cutting-edge graph neural network models, maps the movement of funds, automatically uncovering obfuscation methods and surfacing laundering networks, before they hit static blocklists.
Explainable AI
Every conclusion is transparent, legally defensible and built to evidentiary and regulatory standards for court and compliance. Sapphire Trace is a glass box, not a black box.
Married together: ecosystem-scale identification and attribution is usable by a non-specialist on day one.
Glass-box attribution
Every answer opens up to show its evidence.
Sapphire Trace does much more than hand you a verdict — it hands you the case behind it: every risk score, attribution and traced hop carries citations to the on-chain structure and intelligence sources that produced it.
Nothing is a black box, so what you find, you can prove. In front of a regulator or in court, you know exactly where the intelligence came from, and you can show it.
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● Illicit · 98%
↳ OFAC SDN designation · 2025-11-04
● Verified
↳ Co-spend cluster #48,201 · 312 addresses
● Traced
↳ Ransomware payment thread · forum capture
● Corroborating
Why Sapphire Trace
We are built for the machine age.
Proactive, not reactive
GNNs surface emerging, undocumented laundering networks before they appear on any blocklist.
Cross-chain by design
Tracks obfuscated funds across blockchains, closing the gaps that let actors chain-hop.
Radically simple UX
Usable out of the box on your first crypto case. Complexity lives within the platform.
Court-ready evidence
Explainable AI and source citations throughout, with outputs built to evidentiary standards.
Operational pedigree
Built by investigators who know the workflows of law enforcement, intelligence and compliance.