Blockchain Analytics and Virtual Asset Investigation Techniques

Course overview

Virtual-asset investigations require investigators to understand how blockchain transactions can be reconstructed, analysed and connected to real-world persons, entities and financial activity.

This Blockchain Analytics and Virtual Asset Investigation Techniques course provides an investigation-focused approach to blockchain analysis. It equips participants with practical methodologies for identifying transaction flows, reconstructing financial movements, analysing wallets and exchanges, developing investigative leads and documenting cryptocurrency-related findings.

The course focuses on the transition from blockchain data to investigative intelligence, while highlighting the importance of corroborating blockchain findings with conventional financial records, open-source information and other investigative sources.

What you will be able to do

• Plan and scope virtual-asset investigations
• Identify relevant blockchain evidence and intelligence
• Conduct cryptocurrency transaction tracing
• Analyse wallet activity and transaction histories
• Reconstruct cryptocurrency financial flows
• Identify potential links between wallets and entities
• Analyse exchange and intermediary activity
• Identify layering and obfuscation indicators
• Develop investigative leads from blockchain data
• Corroborate blockchain intelligence with other information sources
• Develop investigative timelines and transaction narratives
• Document blockchain findings for investigative purposes

Who should attend

• Financial investigators
• Cryptocurrency investigators
• Financial intelligence analysts
• Cybercrime investigators
• Law-enforcement officers
• Asset-tracing specialists
• AML/CFT investigators
• FIU analysts
• Tax investigators
• Customs investigators
• Prosecutors and legal professionals involved in financial crime
• Regulatory enforcement personnel

Course outline

Fees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.