Chainalysis

Chainalysis is a blockchain analytics company that builds compliance, investigation, and risk-management software used by cryptocurrency exchanges, financial institutions, government agencies (including the IRS, FBI, and OFAC), and crypto-native businesses to trace on-chain activity, identify wallet ownership clusters, score transaction risk, and support sanctions screening, anti-money-laundering (AML), and know-your-customer (KYC) workflows. Founded in 2014, Chainalysis publishes widely cited industry research including its annual Crypto Crime Report. Why it matters for crypto reputation and PR: Chainalysis data is frequently cited in tier-1 reporting on exploits, sanctions evasion, ransomware payments, and exchange flows, meaning a project's on-chain posture (clean addresses, clean counterparties, no exposure to sanctioned wallets, no proximity to known mixer or exploit funds) is part of its public reputation surface whether the project recognizes it or not. A crypto PR or reputation management program that does not coordinate with the project's on-chain compliance posture (or its Chainalysis / TRM Labs / Elliptic equivalent) is missing the data layer reporters and regulators are already using.