TRM Labs

What TRM Labs does

TRM Labs is an AI investigations company that helps keep people, institutions, and communities safe from crime. More than 600 government agencies and financial institutions across 75 countries use TRM's threat intelligence and AI-powered investigations platform to uncover and disrupt criminal networks, sanctioned actors, scam operations, and state-backed threats. The company maps the criminal economy across 40+ categories of illicit activity, combining first-party attribution with a broad set of intelligence sources. TRM Labs builds the operating system for investigations in the AI era, starting with blockchain intelligence and expanding to equip public-sector agencies and financial institutions across major threat domains.

Products

• TRM PlatformA unified platform combining blockchain intelligence, AI, and collaboration tools for investigators, compliance teams, regulators, and national security agencies. It includes features like Entity Due Diligence, Wallet Screening, Forensics, Know-Your-Asset, Transaction Monitoring, Bulk Data, Deconflict, and Agent (AI assistant).
• TRM MCP (Connect your compliance agents)Connects AI agents to TRM’s blockchain intelligence to resolve transaction monitoring alerts and surface hidden connections. It allows AI to work the full transaction monitoring alert lifecycle, from triage to disposition, ensuring defensible decisions with audit trails.
• Compliance360A platform for compliance teams to enable business growth and stay ahead of emerging threats with complete visibility into entity, address, and asset risk. It connects AI agents to resolve transaction monitoring alerts and surface hidden connections, offering entity risk, address risk, and asset risk monitoring.
• Investigation360An end-to-end platform for agencies to detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related crime. It helps teams move faster, connect every dot, and build court-ready cases, featuring Co-Case Agent, universal cross-chain tracing, and built-in case management tools.
• Seizure360An asset seizure solution that empowers investigators to freeze and seize illicit assets. It includes Seed Analysis for identifying wallets and balances from seed phrases, Beacon Network for freezing funds, and coordinated workflows for freezing Tron and Tether stablecoins.
• Supervision360A solution to oversee an entire jurisdiction from a single view, focusing on the highest-risk entities operating within it.
• NatSec360Equips national security organizations with end-to-end blockchain intelligence capabilities to target adversaries with precision, fusing blockchain and behavioral intelligence to accelerate national security targeting.
• BLOCKINT APIA fast and flexible blockchain intelligence API that can be embedded into mission-critical systems. It allows users to integrate, retrieve, and automate access to TRM’s blockchain intelligence, extract address behavior, quantify risk exposure, and access detailed transaction history.
• TRM ForensicsA tool to trace the source and destination of cryptocurrency transactions and visualize complex crypto crime networks.
• Seed AnalysisA tool to confidently identify associated wallets and balances linked to a seed phrase.
• TRM AcademyProvides industry-leading certification and upskilling through live and self-paced training for compliance and investigation professionals, including the TRM Crypto Compliance Specialist (TRM-CCS) course.
• Co-Case AgentAn AI assistant for crypto investigations, powered by Orion, that empowers analysts and investigators to outpace crypto crime with AI-driven speed while ensuring human-led and defensible actions.
• Beacon NetworkA collaboration network that notifies VASPs in real-time when law enforcement flags illicit funds, allowing them to hold funds before they move out of reach.
• T3 (The Terrorist Financing Targeting Task Force)A real-time intelligence network connecting law enforcement, financial institutions, and crypto businesses to turn shared intelligence into coordinated action, specifically mentioned for freezing fraud proceeds.
• DeconflictA collaboration network connecting law enforcement, financial institutions, and crypto businesses to turn shared intelligence into coordinated action.
• Behavioral Signatures®A proprietary technology that maps financial crime behavioral patterns and transfer labels to connect the dots across transactions and wallets, helping understand the intent behind activity.

Key capabilities

• AI Agents for Investigations
• Proprietary threat intelligence
• Broadest attribution in the industry
• Analyst and AI teaming for investigations
• Specialist teams for investigations and incident response
• Public-private disruption networks (Beacon Network)
• Comprehensive blockchain intelligence across 184+ chains and 840+ cross-chain bridges
• AI-powered investigations platform
• Real-time transaction monitoring
• Wallet screening
• Entity due diligence
• Asset risk monitoring
• Cross-chain analytics
• Behavioral Signatures® for financial crime patterns
• Collaboration networks (Beacon, T3, Deconflict)
• Court-ready exports and audit trails
• Incident Response (24/7 expert support)
• FedRAMP® High compliant cloud environment
• Integration with existing workflows via BLOCKINT API
• Support for incomplete seed phrases and multi-chain searches in Seed Analysis
• Ability to freeze Tether and TRON stablecoins in non-custodial wallets

Use cases

• Uncovering and disrupting criminal networks
• Investigating sanctioned actors
• Detecting and disrupting scam operations
• Combating state-backed threats
• Tracing stolen funds
• Attributing criminal networks
• Building evidentiary cases for seizures, sanctions, takedowns, and prosecutions
• Tracking adversary financing
• Attributing infrastructure for defense and intelligence missions
• Supporting counter-terror and counter-proliferation missions
• Supervising licensed entities
• Monitoring systemic risk
• Surfacing emerging threats in the financial system
• Screening sanctions
• Monitoring transactions for compliance
• Running enhanced due diligence
• Proving compliance to regulators
• Detecting illicit flows in real time for crypto exchanges and fintechs
• Screening wallets
• Resolving transaction monitoring alerts
• Proactive management of crypto exposure
• Uncovering high-risk crypto counterparties from fiat flows
• Conducting efficient risk analysis with unified crypto entity profiles
• Accelerating enhanced due diligence
• Tracing suspicious transactions
• Validating complex exposure paths and uncovering behavioral patterns
• Proactively screening wallets in real time
• Continuously monitoring for emerging risks
• Monitoring digital asset ecosystem risk
• Detecting illicit use of stablecoins in real time
• Analyzing massive volumes of blockchain transactions
• Identifying connections, patterns, and anomalies across high volumes of blockchain activity for law enforcement
• Tracking, enriching, and assessing blockchain activity tied to potential national security threats
• Monitoring jurisdiction risk and gaining visibility into virtual asset flows for regulators
• Analyzing on-chain activity and cross-referencing records to identify taxpayers with undisclosed crypto assets
• Recovering illicit assets
• Freezing illicit assets
• Seizing illicit assets
• Building investigative and legal foundations to disrupt criminal networks and secure convictions
• Triage field artifacts (screenshots, QR codes, ATM receipts, partial addresses) into structured leads
• Spotting patterns in scam and fraud victim reports
• Managing cases with built-in tools and escalation routes
• Providing expert testimony for complex cases
• Identifying and seizing assets from seed phrases
• Coordinating real-time flags for illicit crypto cash-outs
• Freezing Tether and TRON stablecoins in non-custodial wallets
• Combating fentanyl and opioid trafficking
• Investigating financial fraud and money laundering
• Combating child exploitation and sexual abuse
• Investigating arms trafficking and counterproliferation cases
• Prosecuting complex federal crimes including money laundering, securities fraud, narcotics trafficking, and national security offenses

AI approach

TRM Labs is an AI investigations company that uses AI agents and machine learning to fight financial crime, particularly in the crypto space. Their AI-powered platform, including 'Agent' and 'Co-Case Agent' (powered by Orion), assists in investigations, transaction monitoring, and risk analysis by reasoning across blockchain records, threat-actor intelligence, and victim reports. They also use 'Behavioral Signatures®' and transfer labels to map financial crime behavioral patterns.

Tech named: AI Agents, AI-powered investigations platform, machine learning, AI-driven speed, Orion, Behavioral Signatures®, generative AI

Industries served

• Government Agencies
• Financial Institutions
• Law Enforcement
• Defense & Intelligence
• Regulators & Supervisors
• Banks
• Crypto Exchanges
• Fintechs
• National Security
• Public Sector
• Tax Authorities

What it says sets it apart

• AI-powered investigations platform
• Proprietary threat intelligence and broadest attribution in the industry
• Analyst and AI teaming that turns weeks of investigation into minutes
• Backed by experts (former federal agents, prosecutors, compliance leaders)
• Public-private disruption networks (Beacon Network)
• Comprehensive blockchain intelligence across 184+ chains and 840+ cross-chain bridges
• Industry-leading attribution for sanctions, terrorist financing, CSAM, and hard-to-attribute entities
• Behavioral Signatures® for mapping financial crime behavioral patterns
• Real-time intelligence networks (Beacon, T3, Deconflict)
• AI assistant (Agent/Co-Case Agent) for crypto investigations, ensuring human-led and defensible actions
• FedRAMP® High Authorization for government clients
• End-to-end solutions for compliance, investigation, seizure, supervision, and national security
• Codifies years of compliance and investigator expertise into structured tools for AI agents
• Unmatched blockchain coverage and continuous enrichment
• Strategic partnerships with other security and forensics companies (Flashpoint, Magnet Forensics, Searchlight Cyber, i2)

Funding rounds we track

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