FAQs

Crystal Intelligence is a leading blockchain intelligence firm empowering financial institutions, law enforcement and regulators with real-time blockchain analysis, investigative and compliance solutions. Our solution helps financial institutions comply with global anti-money laundering regulations efficiently. Investigators and government agencies leverage Crystal’s cutting-edge technology and unique real-time intelligence to solve crypto investigations. Available as a free blockchain explorer, SaaS, or API.

Crystal Expert is an all-in-one blockchain analytics tool for compliance teams to monitor crypto transactions and screen entities to meet global regulatory anti-money laundering requirements. It is also used by investigators to identify criminals and track the flow of illicit crypto transactions. Crystal Expert provides visualizations of crypto transactions and customer networks, up-to-the minute intelligence and transaction monitoring for thousands of cryptocurrencies in real-time.

Crystal’s customers are banks, financial services, crypto exchanges and businesses, virtual asset providers, government agencies and independent investigators.

Crystal Expert currently supports 335 blockchains. These include Bitcoin, Tether, Ethereum (including ERC-20, ERC-721), Ethereum Classic, Binance Smart Chain (including BEP-20), Tron (including TRC-20), Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Stellar, Ripple, Dogecoin, Dash, Zcash, Algorand, EOS, Solana, Matic, Cardano,  Radix, Velas, Klaytn, Celo, Avalanche, Fantom, Moonbeam, Cronos, NEAR, Oasis, Optimism, Polkadot, Tezos with more coins to be added soon.

Yes. Crystal Expert provides real-time risk assessment tools, transaction monitoring and screening capabilities to meet AML regulatory requirements and can be calibrated in line with your firm’s risk policies and procedures.

Crystal’s Data and Intelligence Team regularly collects, processes and analyses information from a variety of open sources; this includes proprietary access to high risk and illicit services as well as repositories such as data leaks. Crystal does not, and will not, collect or process information about private individual ownership, notwithstanding the publication on a document such as an international sanctions list, legal proceeding or similar which our client would require for compliance with local laws.

Yes. Crystal constantly updates its list of entities.
However, should you come across a discrepancy please inform our team at
[email protected] describing the issue.

Within the Explorer tab in the web app, users can find and search the complete list of known entities within the Crystal solution.

In Crystal’s default setup, entities that perform illegal activities, or exchanges with lower KYC barriers, would have a high-risk score. On the other hand, KYC-compliant businesses and known mining pools have low-risk scores, and each of those entity risk scores also affects other entities that interact with these known low or high-risk entities, up to 100,000 hops.

Also, there are two types of risk labels on the platform:

• Supplied by an expert: for known entities
• Calculated by the algorithm: for addresses whose owner is unknown

The first set of labels is assigned based on manual expert analysis of publicly available information (e.g., business type or compliance with KYC/AML rules). Those labels can be later configured.

The second set of labels is determined by the algorithm based on a risk score profile set up by the user.

The user can fully customize risk score types and adjust them according to the customer’s needs.

There are two ways of using our solution:

1. Crystal Expert: is accessed through the web application, runs on Crystal servers, and is located in a data center in the EU.
2. Crystal API: is accessed through the REST API. The application runs on Crystal servers and is located in a data center in the EU.

A more detailed comparison of Crystal’s analytics solutions can be  found here.

If your trial license has expired, please contact  [email protected]  to extend your license, otherwise please contact the team at  [email protected].