I recently completed an expert report in a criminal matter involving the tracing of multiple cryptocurrency movements across exchange accounts, private wallets and blockchain transactions.
The work required an independent reconciliation of prosecution tracing evidence against public blockchain data, transaction hashes, exchange records and wallet activity. My analysis broadly confirmed the reported movement of assets up to certain endpoints, but also identified that the evidence did not fully establish where some assets moved after reaching third-party exchange accounts or private wallet addresses.
The matter was a useful reminder that blockchain transparency does not always mean evidential completeness. Once assets move through exchanges, swaps, private wallets or third-party services, the evidential chain can become significantly harder to confirm without corroborating records.
This type of work sits at the intersection of financial markets expertise, digital asset tracing, regulatory understanding and expert witness discipline.