Fraud detection Cryptocurrency

Detecting crypto scams with AI. An AML system for Bitcoin and Ethereum.

An established cryptocurrency company wanted to build an anti-money laundering system for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Here’s how we helped them.

98.4%

accuracy detecting illicit transactions

The opportunity

Scalable for regulators. And for billions of transactions.

As cryptocurrencies become more important, there is a growing need for anti-money laundering solutions that traditional financial institutions can use.

Our client, an established cryptocurrency firm, chose to partner with Exometrics to build an anti-money laundering system capable of predicting the risk of cryptocurrency transactions. The solution had to be:

  • Functionally scalable, to handle complex requirements from regulators
  • Built to scale to billions of transactions on various blockchains

Our solution

A modular system. Machine learning and rules, running on Azure.

We designed a scalable, modular system running on Microsoft Azure. Its core combines state-of-the-art machine learning with a flexible rule-based sub-system.

  1. Data engineering Databases to import and manage billions of Bitcoin and Ethereum transactions
  2. Machine learning State-of-the-art algorithms that predict the risk of each transaction
  3. Rule-based sub-system Flexible rules that work alongside the models

Technologies used.

The cloud platforms, graph database, languages and machine learning framework behind the system.

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Neo4j
  • Python
  • Scala
  • TensorFlow

Results

Illicit transactions, detected. With state-of-the-art models.

  • Developed and delivered a sophisticated cryptocurrency AML system with state-of-the-art machine learning models
  • Sourced a dataset of over 1 million illicit crypto transactions from multiple sources
  • Achieved 98.4% accuracy when detecting illicit transactions

98.4%

accuracy detecting illicit transactions

1M+

illicit crypto transactions in the dataset

Verified review on Clutch

“Their ML skills were top-notch.”

Ian Gilmour Former CEO, Parabolic Digital

Project reviewed: ML-based anti-money laundering tool for a digital assets firm. Read the review on Clutch (opens in a new tab)

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