Elliptic

What Elliptic does

Elliptic is a leader in digital asset decisioning, providing a comprehensive platform for extracting crypto data and intelligence with high accuracy, uptime, and scalability. Founded in 2013, Elliptic pioneered blockchain analytics for financial crime compliance. Their solutions enable organizations to manage compliance, risk management, intelligence operations, and blockchain infrastructure needs. They offer real-time blockchain analytics for scalable crypto compliance, deep forensic investigations, and tools to make confident compliance decisions backed by an extensive blockchain dataset. Elliptic also provides education and training to increase capability across organizations in assessing risk and investigating blockchain activity. Their platform is designed to help financial institutions, crypto businesses, and law enforcement navigate the complexities of the digital asset ecosystem and combat financial crime.

Products

• Elliptic LensA tool for blockchain analytics, used in product certifications for wallet screening and transaction monitoring.
• Elliptic NavigatorA tool for blockchain analytics, used in product certifications for wallet screening and transaction monitoring.
• Elliptic InvestigatorA tool for blockchain analytics, used in specialist investigator certifications for blockchain forensics.
• Elliptic's copilotAn AI-powered tool that automates risk context-building and generates investigative insights to increase productivity and efficiency for compliance teams.
• Elliptic Data FabricA solution that delivers market-leading, plug-in blockchain data and intelligence for any workflow, providing ground-truth data covering illicit activity, actors, wallet ownership, fund flow analysis, off-chain evidence, behavioral typologies, and geolocational signals.
• Holistic Screening and Investigation TechnologyA technology for comprehensive cross-chain and cross-asset risk detection, enabling tracing across networks, assets, wallets, and transactions, including through obfuscating services like bridges, DEXs, and coinswaps.
• Issuer Due DiligenceA solution enabling banks and financial institutions to confidently hold reserve assets for stablecoin issuers, part of the Stablecoin Risk Management suite.

Key capabilities

• Real-time blockchain analytics
• Scalable crypto compliance
• Deep forensic investigations
• Comprehensive blockchain dataset
• Configurable risk rules
• Asset-agnostic scoring capabilities
• Automated risk summaries
• Accelerated investigations
• Secure & compliant AI-generated summaries
• Cross-chain and cross-asset tracing
• Automated cross-chain and cross-asset tracing and visualization
• Widest coverage of blockchains and assets
• Chain-agnostic risk detection
• Efficient investigation workflows
• Data & intelligence for decisioning
• Scalable compliance operations
• Unified end-to-end view of value flows
• Bridge tracing capabilities
• Programmatic API-driven insights
• Real-time blockchain monitoring
• Wallet screening
• Transaction monitoring
• Suspicious activity investigation
• Advanced entity screening and analytics
• Automated re-screening of wallets and transactions
• Instant alerts when risk levels shift
• Visualization of complex fund flows
• Data ingestion into existing systems
• Configurable alerting
• Blocklists for high-risk addresses
• Data enrichment with Holistic blockchain data, cluster insights, transactional data, assertion evidence, OSINT leads, metadata
• Custom datasets and APIs
• VASP screening
• On-chain Elliptic Score for entity risk assessment
• Data visualization with analytics dashboards
• Advanced filtering for specific risks
• Transaction explorer for faster escalations
• Workflow integration for indirect risk exposure
• Ownership & fund flow analysis
• Customer analytics for screening trends
• Audit-ready workflows

Use cases

• Onboarding customers with confidence
• Reducing investigation time
• Adopting stablecoins without new exposure
• Making risk decisions earlier and more consistently
• Operating more efficiently and being audit-ready
• Meeting regulatory expectations and industry standards
• Getting ahead of regulatory demands as crypto exposure evolves
• Making smarter risk decisions across onboarding and monitoring
• Reducing false positives and operational load in compliance
• Turning complex crypto activity into clear, defensible answers
• Moving from suspicion to attribution faster
• Shortening time-to-resolution for investigations
• Reducing reserve and counterparty uncertainty with clearer issuer signals
• Responding to emerging typologies sooner with broader blockchain coverage
• Embedding blockchain intelligence into existing processes
• Unlocking automation, consistency, and better governance at scale
• Revealing crypto exposure hiding within traditional payment activity
• Strengthening controls and protecting against compliance failures
• Building trust into ecosystems and lowering adoption friction
• Increasing capability across organizations in risk assessment and investigation
• Screening wallets
• Monitoring transactions
• Investigating illicit blockchain activity
• Combatting crypto-enabled crime
• Analyzing blockchain activity to identify risks
• Implementing best practices to reduce exposure to financial crime
• Uncovering illicit activity, identifying behavioral patterns, and tracing dirty money
• Solving crypto crimes faster for law enforcement
• Tracking the flow of illicit funds across blockchains, DEXs, mixers
• Pinpointing cash-out points at regulated exchanges for intervention and evidence collection
• Gathering evidence and building cases with confidence
• Triage of high volumes of wallets and transactions
• Streamlining cryptoasset compliance for centralized exchanges
• Mitigating risk exposure for centralized exchanges
• Pushing down compliance costs for centralized exchanges
• Meeting regulatory obligations for centralized exchanges
• Enhancing decisioning processes with ground-truth evidence
• Building block lists to prevent interactions with high-risk addresses
• Improving existing processes or analyses with off-the-shelf intelligence
• Consuming raw blockchain data for compliance decisioning
• Detecting illicit cross-chain and cross-asset activity
• Streamlining AML compliance workflows
• Identifying wallet owners
• Assessing, monitoring, and managing entity and VASP risk
• Conducting thorough due diligence
• Preventing exploitation of platforms by illicit actors
• Monitoring how tokens interact with high-risk entities
• Supporting law enforcement, intelligence, and national security operations with threat intelligence
• Enabling crypto acceptance, stablecoin settlement, and cross-border flows for payment providers
• Meeting FATF Recommendation 16 Travel Rule obligations

AI approach

Elliptic uses AI and machine learning for blockchain analytics, compliance, and fraud prevention. Their 'copilot' automates risk context-building and generates investigative insights, significantly reducing the time compliance analysts spend on alerts and investigations. They emphasize continuous maintenance of their solutions in line with compliance and regulatory standards, rigorous model validation, and testing.

Tech named: AI, machine learning

Industries served

• Financial Services
• Fintech
• Digital Asset Ecosystem
• Law Enforcement
• Government
• Public Sector
• Payment Service Providers

What it says sets it apart

• Most comprehensive platform with unrivalled uptime and scalability for extracting crypto data and intelligence
• Depth and breadth of data and intelligence
• Industry's most comprehensive blockchain dataset
• Expert analysis, regulatory updates, and actionable intelligence
• Asset-agnostic scoring capabilities
• Configurable risk rules
• Extensive selection of cryptocurrencies supported
• Leading blockchain analytics toolkit driven by cutting-edge AI and machine learning for over 12 years
• Rigorous model validation & testing for AI
• Strict data privacy & security controls for AI
• Industry's highest quality blockchain intelligence for law enforcement
• Broadest, most accurate blockchain intelligence (99% of trading volume across 60+ blockchains)
• Efficient, automated solutions for law enforcement
• Unified crypto financial network (Holistic network) for comprehensive tracking
• Battle-tested by the world’s largest exchanges and financial institutions
• Industry’s broadest blockchain coverage
• Next-generation cross-chain screening solutions
• Automated investigations
• High asset coverage and in-depth data intelligence
• Quick turn-around time for identifying anomalies
• Pioneered the use of blockchain analytics for financial crime compliance (founded 2013)
• Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer
• 13+ years of ground-truth evidence to connect real-world entities with on-chain activity
• Seamless, scalable tracing across every network, asset, and transaction
• Most robust and accessible dataset (100 billion data points)
• Programmatic detection of illicit cross-chain and cross-asset activity
• Reliable and scalable APIs with industry's best uptime
• First-of-its-kind Issuer Due Diligence solution
• Over 100 billion data points for identifying suspicious activity
• Comprehensive VASP coverage with on-chain and off-chain data
• Single, comparative metric (Elliptic Score) for entity risk across blockchains and assets
• Customizable risk thresholds for alerts
• Industry-leading uptime and resilient infrastructure for payment providers

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.