Forensics & Investigation
You were told the money is gone and cannot be traced. That is not true. The blockchain records every transaction permanently, and stolen funds have to surface somewhere to be spent.
Request a consultationThree things people repeat. None are quite right.
It is pseudonymous. Every transfer is public and permanent. The difficulty is not seeing the money. It is naming who holds it.
They can be followed. Mixers and bridges complicate the path. They rarely erase it.
Stolen crypto is worthless until it is converted. Conversion usually happens at a platform that keeps records.
Not a theory. A record.
The path
Where the funds went, through which wallets, and at what hour.
The destination
Which platforms received them, and therefore who holds records on the account.
The failure
What the institution saw, when it saw it, and what it did not do.
The proof
Evidence preserved in a form that survives challenge in arbitration.
A claim without evidence is just an accusation.
An institution will not accept liability because you are certain. It will accept liability when the record leaves no room to argue.
Investigation is what turns what happened to you into something that can be proved.
Every day makes the trail colder.
Records are purged. Funds keep moving. Accounts close.
- On-chain transaction history
- Wallet and address paths
- Platform account records
- Device and login logs
- Logs that rotate and overwrite
- Deleted messages and alerts
- Closed receiving accounts
- Funds cashed out
From the first call to a usable record.
Preserve, immediately
Before anything else. What is lost this week cannot be recovered next month.
Follow the money
The funds are traced from your wallet to wherever they came to rest.
Identify who must answer
The platforms that received the funds. The institution that let them leave.
Build a record that holds
Findings documented so they survive challenge, not just so they read well.
Lawyers alone cannot trace a blockchain.
Every matter draws on the people who can. All of them work under privilege.
- Former federal cybercrime investigators
- Former federal and state regulators
- Blockchain forensics specialists
- Licensed expert witnesses
Frequently asked.
Not necessarily. A mixer makes the path harder to follow. It does not usually make it impossible.
And the funds still have to come out somewhere to be spent. That exit is often where the record picks back up.
Tracing and recovery are different things. Tracing tells you where the money went and who touched it.
Recovery runs against the institution that failed you. The trace is what makes that claim provable.
Later is worse, but not always hopeless. On-chain records are permanent and do not expire.
What does expire is everything else. Platform logs, account records, and legal deadlines. It is worth an assessment rather than an assumption.
Sometimes. More often, what matters is not the thief. It is the platform that received the funds and the institution that let them go.
Those parties have names, addresses, and records. A claim can be brought against them.
The trail is still there. It will not be forever.
A confidential consultation on what can still be traced and who may answer for it.
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