As this year finally comes to a close, TRM Labs is reflecting on the impact their customers have had — from exposing exploitation and fraud, to dismantling various violent criminal networks, to disrupting money laundering networks, to recovering stolen funds for unsuspecting victims. TRM Labs highlighted customer wins, key product releases, policy updates, and several important insights.
TRM Labs noted 2025 by the numbers:
- USD 330M in illicit assets frozen by T3 FCU
- USD 50M in assets disrupted by Beacon Network
- 93,000 deconfliction signals
- 4,300 training credentials earned
- 120+ product releases
- 23 new blockchains supported
TRM Labs further noted that every day, their clients work to protect their organizations, customers, and communities — from “uncovering online exploitation, to dismantling violent criminal networks, to returning stolen funds to victims.”
Investigators from The National Organized Crime Agency (NCOZ), a specialized branch of the Police of the Czech Republic, uncovered a coordinated scam network of fraudulent dark web portals “that took cryptocurrency payments” from users seeking illegal material.
TRM Labs also mentioned that Coinbase partnered with law enforcement on two cases involving violent crypto theft.
In the US, the global intelligence team worked with the FBI to “dismantle a nationwide organized crime group that was robbing high-net-worth individuals through violent home invasions.”
Kristen Spaeth (Global Intelligence Manager at Coinbase) and her team traced over USD 3.5 million in stolen funds “across complex laundering paths and linked them to real-world identities.”
The investigation led to the arrest of “14 suspects and convictions, with the ringleader, Remy St. Felix, receiving a 47-year prison sentence — one of the longest ever for a crypto-related crime.”
In the UK, Coinbase’s Global Intelligence team partnered with West Midlands Police to “find on-chain evidence against a violent gang that had used fake Grindr profiles to lure victims and assault and rob them.”
Investigators traced the stolen funds — “linking them to the suspects.”
The combined evidence strengthened “the prosecution’s case, leading to convictions of all five attackers and a combined sentence of over 78 years in prison.”
In Arizona, Scottsdale PD investigated “a series of crypto robberies in which a scammer posed as a rideshare driver and tricked and coerced victims into handing over their phones — draining more than USD 300,000 from their crypto wallets.”
By combining traditional investigative methods “with blockchain intelligence, detectives identified and arrested the primary suspect.”
This year, TRM Labs also released over 120 new features and enhancements.
They focused on adding “new blockchain and asset support, reducing the time from data to decision, and enabling better coordination between private and public sector.”
This year, they launched support for 23 blockchains, including Canton Network, Hyperliquid, Hedera, Zksync, Sui, Sei, XDC, and XRPL EVM.
They’re adding new blockchain coverage — averaging over two blockchains per month in the latter half of 2025 — enabled “by standardizing support for every new chain.”
TRM’s Standard support includes:
- Automatic support for all native assets, including all derivative assets on EVM chains
- Full capabilities in TRM Wallet Screening and TRM Transaction Monitoring
- Entity and address-level analytics in TRM Forensics, like counterparty volumes and risk indicators
- Automatic cross-chain tracing through 640+ attributed bridges
- Ownership and counterparty exposure for all risk categories
- Indirect exposure for severe and high-risk categories
- Real-time transaction data freshness
- Standard support ensures every chain we launch enables customer outcomes and includes consistent functionality, so you don’t have to guess what’s supported from chain to chain.
Throughout 2025, they also “enhanced custom entities, enabling users to cluster addresses, entities, and other custom entities to get aggregated insights.”
2025 was the year regulatory “clarity met market momentum.”
The US, under the Trump administration, “reshaped the global policy tone as crypto regulation entered a period of accelerating implementation and growing maturity.”
Esteban Castaño, CEO and co-founder of TRM Labs said:
“This year, we saw global private sector organizations and law enforcement agencies join forces to launch Beacon Network, the first real-time crypto crime response network. I’m inspired by our customers — who are on the frontlines every day disrupting global criminal and money laundering networks, recovering stolen funds, and helping victims rebuild trust in the financial system. Looking ahead to 2026, I’m encouraged by the continued impacts from private-public disruptions, as well as the industry’s use of AI as another tool in our arsenal to combat AI-enabled crime.”