ChainRecon Consulting helps organizations investigate digital asset activity, manage financial crime risk, and solve difficult blockchain data problems.
We work with financial institutions, digital asset businesses, law firms, and other teams that need to understand what happened on-chain and what to do next. Our work spans BSA/AML compliance, sanctions, complex investigations, training, and technical analysis.
Built by operators with firsthand experience investigating and analyzing some of the largest cryptocurrency cases.
We work on complex, often multi-year investigations involving money laundering networks, stolen funds, smart contract exploits, and corporate matters. We trace activity across bridges, mixers, and off-ramps using both on-chain and off-chain data. Our team has experience with multiple leading blockchain analytics platforms, but we also examine the underlying transactions and protocol mechanics directly. This lets us test a tool’s conclusions and pursue leads it may not show. When a case calls for more, we build our own tools and analyses to supplement the platforms we use.
We have seen how illicit activity appears in actual investigations. We use that experience to help clients design monitoring rules, improve review procedures, train analysts, and make better-supported decisions about crypto risk. As illicit activity evolves, we bring emerging patterns into those controls and workflows.
When standard tools cannot answer a question, we examine blockchain data, smart contract code, and protocol behavior directly. We build the analyses and tools needed to understand what happened and support the findings.
We learn what decision you need to make, what information you already have, and where the uncertainty lies. That gives the work a clear scope from the outset.
We trace activity, review the relevant data and documents, and test the assumptions behind an initial explanation. We distinguish what the evidence establishes from what still needs investigation.
We deliver clear conclusions and practical next steps, whether the result is an investigative report, a better monitoring rule, a review procedure, or training for your team.
Carlos leads ChainRecon’s BSA/AML compliance and financial crime advisory work. He brings more than 15 years of experience in crypto, including blockchain compliance at Coinbase and investigations at Elliptic, alongside a background in traditional banking compliance. He has also supported government investigations into money laundering and other illicit activity. At ChainRecon, he draws on that experience to help clients improve monitoring, review procedures, and training for the teams making day-to-day compliance decisions.
Marshall leads ChainRecon’s technical investigative work. He combines blockchain tracing, data analysis, and software engineering to reconstruct activity across chains and protocols. His background includes data engineering at Lockheed Martin. He has also supported government cryptocurrency investigations involving major corporations, smart contract exploits, and money laundering networks. At ChainRecon, he builds the analyses and tools needed to answer difficult questions and present clear findings.
If you are facing a complex investigation, reviewing your crypto compliance approach, or trying to make sense of difficult blockchain activity, tell us what you are working through. We can help define the problem and the next steps.
