More than 2,000 suspicious transaction reports filed by nearly 90 financial institutions were leaked. We go through what are SARs, discuss the broader implications, analyse a sample dataset made public and share our thoughts on what it takes to fix the problem.

The G20 TechSprint initiative, aims to highlight the potential for technologies to resolve regulatory compliance and supervisory challenges. Team Cylynx is shortlisted as one of the finalists in the problem statement of monitoring AML/CFT risks on crypto assets.

With its total market cap exceeding $10 Billion in May 2020, stable coins are becoming increasingly popular with investors in the cryptocurrency space. In this article, we investigate 5 popular ERC20 stable coin - TUSD, USDT, PAX, USDC and BUSD. Through a combination of time series analysis and network plots, we characterise their growth trajectory and highlight key patterns and behaviours.

We analyzed the activities of the Upbit hack by tracing transaction trails and reveal sophisticated attempts by the hackers to conceal the origin of funds and cash out the stolen ETH through exchanges.

The structure of a blockchain fits very naturally into a graph representation, with addresses being the nodes and transactions being the edges of a graph. By modelling the blockchain as a graph, we can get a comprehensive view of the activities that are on-going and how the different entities are related to each other.