Hidden criminal activity from the dark web and beyond
As the world has become increasingly digitized, economic crime and the trade in illicit goods have shifted online

Use of the dark web is increasing 50% year-on-year, and cryptocurrencies have become the primary means of exchange.

The rise of cryptocurrencies has brought all the properties of cash into the digital world, enabling users to transact online, across borders and with enhanced user privacy. As a result, they have become key enablers of crimes committed online.

At Elliptic, we see cryptocurrencies used to facilitate the illegal trade of drugs, weapons, stolen credit cards and IDs, child sexual abuse material and ransomware-as-a-service. As well as a variety of financial crimes such as fraud, money laundering and tax evasion.

Leveraging forensic software to uncover crime
We deliver solutions that combat the growing use of pseudonymous and anonymous cryptocurrencies to facilitate and fund criminal activity.

Elliptic’s Forensics software serves law enforcement, intelligence, regulatory agencies and financial crime investigations teams by enabling them to systematically trace and unmask suspicious activity on the bitcoin blockchain by linking digital identities to real-world profiles.

Our software is powered by an analytics platform which derives insight from proprietary data to help identify suspects, prove illicit activity, and build intelligence on criminal enterprises.

• The top law enforcement agencies use Elliptic’s software to investigate bitcoin’s role in cases of narcotics distribution, child pornography, and ransomware.
• Our dataset draws on an extensive number of both public and privately accessible sources of information in order to identify real-world identities on the bitcoin blockchain. The array of data that we generate through these sources cannot be replicated.