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Today we are excited to announce the introduction of Elliptic’s next generation blockchain analytics technology – Holistic – to our investigative solution: Elliptic Investigator.
Crypto investigations have long been plagued by manual and inefficient processes that typically require specialized investigators and lengthy training to learn about the various methodologies that illegal actors use to conceal their activity.
Given the increasing sophistication of bad actors and the rise of interoperability between cryptoassets through cross-bridges and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), investigators face an uphill and protracted battle to identify and disrupt asset flows.
Often research on legacy crypto research software requires prior knowledge of actor behavior patterns or unlimited time to manually trace all the paths bad actors could take.
We launched Elliptic Investigator in 2022 to make cryptoasset research simpler and faster. Now, augmented by our holistic technology, compliance teams and law enforcement agencies can easily plan and investigate crypto asset flows even as they move through different assets and blocks.
How Holistic in Investigator is revolutionizing cryptoasset research
Powered by holistic technology, Elliptic Investigator becomes the world’s first fully cross-chain and cross-asset research tool. Compliance teams and investigative units are able to visualize value transfers between the chain and assets on one chart with a with one click.
With a truly chain-agnostic graph, users can more easily track money on chains, regardless of what method an actor uses to disguise transaction activity. Users can also take advantage of our recent innovations in Investigator – such as one-click auto-plot – to significantly reduce the length of an end-to-end investigation and bring cases to resolution faster.
Elliptical research has shown this 80% of cross-chain research involved three or more different cryptoassets. The addition of Holistic in Investigator means teams will save a significant amount of time and reduce costs by condensing multiple, disparate investigations into a single, explorable cross-chain and cross-asset graph.
This is because the user can create graphs for any network or asset that Elliptic supports and search any address without the need to specify assets or blockchain. From there, users can plot the connections from A and B, regardless of the network/asset involved, and better understand the overall flow of assets between these two entities.
With this upgrade, we’ve added significant improvements to Investigator to enable more contextual and detailed information within our tools. Users can now visually mark the chart with asset icons to distinguish a change in the blockchain or asset in the asset stream. Additional context on transfers of value in a cluster or transaction can be seen from the Inspectorate Commission for a more detailed account of illegal activities.
Ensuring the most effective cryptoasset compliance program
With interoperable screening and investigative tools powered by Holistic, we can reduce compliance costs by enabling programmatic risk detection, reducing the number of false positives you must manually investigate and the number of false negatives that put you at risk of missing instances of potentially illicit activity. For cases that require it, seamless one-click transitions from screening to investigative work are available, allowing you to immediately develop an investigation from a pre-built and automatically generated chart.
Contact us today to learn more about how your organization can move through more cases faster, use fewer expert resources, and reduce investigation costs with the most efficient and intuitive cryptoasset investigation solution available on the market today.
