In this edition:
Product releases
Blockchain intelligence releases
Counter Narcotics
Facilitation and Money Laundering
Fraud
Sanctions
Blockchain support
Behavioral rules in TRM Transaction Monitoring
Behavioral rules are a new rule type in Transaction Monitoring that flag accounts on aggregate activity patterns to a risk category or entity over a rolling time window, rather than one transaction at a time. For example, you can define a rule that triggers an alert when over $1,000 goes to a gambling service in a 24-hour period.
This release is currently only available for US customers.
How to use
Navigate to Alert rules in Transaction Monitoring
Click on New Rule and select Behavioral Alert
Configure the counterparty category, direction, and threshold
TRM MCP enhancements: TRM Wallet Screening results and behavioral alerts
TRM MCP now connects to Wallet Screening, enabling your agents to analyze and investigate screening results. You can:
View recent wallet screening results and drill into the full details for a screened address to analyze what risk indicators triggered and why
See how risk has changed over time for a given screened address
Understand ownership attribution sources
Investigate the onchain transfers behind counterparty risk exposure
View all indirect exposure paths for a screened address and trace the intermediary hops connecting the address to a risk category or entity
TRM MCP now also surfaces behavioral alerts alongside transfer alerts, so your AI agent can pull full context and evidence, then dismiss, escalate, or reopen them without leaving the conversation.
This release also adds:
TRM MCP availability to EU customers
Portfolio balance returned as part of address and entity risk signals
Transfer counts and volume over a chosen window (last 30, 60, or 90 days)
Entity names on terminus addresses instead of just categories
Filtering alerts by destination address, closed date, and closed reason
Deeplinks from alert context directly to counterparty profiles in Block Explorer
View of Transaction Monitoring alerts for a specific time period (e.g., “How many alerts fired in Q2?”)
Ability to filter transaction monitoring alerts by destination address
Aggregate view of recent wallet risk exposure over the last 30, 60, or 90 days
Follow risk through cross-chain swaps and bridges when tracing an exposure path
How to use
Connect to TRM MCP via your AI agent of choice
Ask to see your recent Wallet Screening results or behavioral alerts
Investigate a specific result with prompts (e.g., "Show me the screening results on this address in the last 30 days")
Ask your agent to trace the exposure path, or to close or escalate an alert and draft the disposition reason
Dark mode theme
The platform now has a full dark theme, giving analysts a lower-light option for long investigation sessions. Dark mode covers investigation modules (Graph Visualizer, Triage, Cases, Deconflict), compliance modules (Transaction Monitoring, Entity Monitoring, Asset Monitoring, Wallet Screening, Entity Screening), and shared UI throughout.
How to use
Use the sun/moon toggle in the app header to switch between light and dark
To set Light, Dark, or System preference, navigate to the Settings tab in Account Profile and set your preference in Appearance
New user and environment management interface
Easily access environment and account settings through a new streamlined user interface.
How to use
Click on your initials in the top right corner
Click on:
Settings - Manage organization and/or environment-level settings based on your role (e.g., user management, Risk Engine, API keys, and the audit log)
My Account - Manage personal settings like AI feature enablement and language
Platform Information - View supported assets and blockchains
Learn more about the navigation tabs here: https://support.trmlabs.com/en/articles/16562837-navigating-settings
We are also simplifying role types to the following:
Admins: Manage users and organization and/or environment-level settings
Members: View and access products that they hold a license for
Learn more about role types here: https://support.trmlabs.com/en/articles/16562825-user-roles-and-permissions
We’ve added the ability to create user groups (e.g., segmenting users by region, team, or business line) within an environment to streamline bulk user management.
How to use
Navigate to Settings and click on the Groups tab
Click New group
Add members and set each member's role within the group
Co-Case Agent™ enhancements: custom entity analysis and court-ready reports
Co-Case Agent can now analyze the custom entities you build in Graph Visualizer. Ask about an entity's activity, risk, counterparties, transfers, member addresses, and ownership in plain language, and Co-Case Agent plots supported counterparties and transfers onto your graph while keeping track of which entity you're asking about. Results flag when data is still loading, so you can distinguish a low activity entity from one with no activity. Exposure, attribution, and monitoring on custom entities aren't supported yet, and Co-Case Agent will let you know rather than guessing.
In order to use Co-Case Agent, your admin needs to enable AI features for your environment.
How to use
Open a graph in Graph Visualizer and launch Co-Case Agent
Select or name a custom entity to ask about (e.g., "Summarize this entity's risk and top counterparties")
Co-Case Agent returns the summary, risk, counterparties, transfers, member addresses, or ownership breakdown, and plots supported counterparties or transfers onto your graph when you ask
Ask Co-Case Agent to generate an editable Word document from an off-ramp seizure assessment or any graph investigation. Every export writes an audit-log entry with the user, environment, and time.
How to use
Confirm with your admin that AI features are enabled for your environment
Open a graph investigation or an off-ramp seizure assessment in Graph Visualizer
Use Co-Case Agent to generate the investigation report (formerly Full Graph Narrative)
Export the report as a Word document (.docx)
CSV export for audit logs
Admins can now download the audit log as a CSV at the organization, environment, and group level. The export respects the filters applied to the table, and every download is recorded in the audit log.
How to use
Open Settings and go to the audit log at the organization, environment, or group scope
Apply any filters you need (action, user, date range)
Click Download CSV to save the current view
Litecoin support added for real-time monitoring in Detect
Detect's real-time monitoring, previously limited to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and TRON, now covers Litecoin with the same detector options and alerting.
How to use
Open Detect and create a detector
Paste a Litecoin address and select Litecoin in the chain selector
Set your triggers and save
Receive email alerts when transactions match the parameters in the detector
Recurring counterparty detection for cross-chain swaps
Investigators can now see which counterparty addresses recur across an address's cross-chain swaps directly in the Behavioral Signature side panel. Select a recurring counterparty to plot it on the graph as a single node, instead of tracing through dozens or hundreds of individual swap instances one at a time. Currently, only cross-chain swaps are covered.
How to use
Plot an address in Graph Visualizer
Open the Behavioral Signature side panel by clicking the Cross-chain Swap tag under the address
View the Recurring Counterparties section above the Instances table, listing each counterparty by swap count in descending order
Select a counterparty to plot it to the graph as a single node
Cross-chain swap plotting prompt in Graph Visualizer
When you plot a transfer that contains a cross-chain swap from the transfer table, you are now prompted to plot the full swap or just the underlying transaction. The prompt is on by default and can be turned off in Graph Settings.
How to use
Select one or more rows and plot them from the Graph Visualizer address transfers, entity transfers, or category transfers table
When a selected row contains a cross-chain swap, choose Plot cross-chain swap(s) to show both sides or Plot transaction / Plot transfers to plot the rows as ordinary transactions
To turn the prompt off, go to Graph Settings → General → Cross-chain swap prompt
Balance amount labels for graph nodes
Investigators can toggle on a new tag in Graph Visualizer to see each node's USD balance, so balances across several addresses on the same graph are visible at once instead of needing an investigator to open each address sidebar one at a time.
How to use
Open Graph Settings and navigate to Node Appearance
Turn on Show portfolio value
Select Amount (Threshold stays the default)
Balance amounts render below each node, abbreviated the same way as the entity sidebar
Sort cases by last updated timestamp in Case Management
Case Management now shows each case's last-updated time in the Cases table, My Work, and Case Properties, and investigators can use the field to sort cases. The timestamp updates on any shared case activity, including notes, sharing changes, or edits, so teams juggling multiple cases can see what changed most recently without opening each one individually.
How to use
Open Case Management to see the Last Updated column in the Cases table, My Work, and Case Properties
Click the Last Updated column header to sort cases
Bookmarked cases stay pinned at the top regardless of sort order
New TRM Academy courses
20 new Intel Insights threat modules
These are short, self-paced lessons on how a single typology moves money onchain and what an investigator can and cannot conclude from it. Topics span laundering and infrastructure (mixers, stablecoin laundering, cross-chain bridges, ransomware), fraud and scams (pig butchering, scam compounds, AI-enabled crime), cyber and theft (hacks and exploits, drainer malware), and sanctions and method (A7 Network sanctions evasion, on-chain attribution methods).
AI Fundamentals course
This is a self-paced introduction to how AI actually works — models and inference, prompting, capabilities and limits, and risk and oversight — ending in an applied, scored scenario the learner carries from a first prompt to a defensible finish. It's product-agnostic and requires no TRM platform access.
Updated TRM Advanced Crypto Investigator (TRM-ACI) certification
The TRM Advanced Crypto Investigator (TRM-ACI) certification has been rebuilt around how funds move today. New material covers account abstraction and the Pectra upgrade — including identifying the true sender behind a paymaster-funded transaction — a new NFT section, and a new section on bridges and cross-chain swaps, with Ethereum tracing logic now applied across TRON and Solana. The course runs about 16 hours and ends in a new 55-question exam. Prior ACI holders can now recertify using the refreshed certification as the recert path (accessed from the Store tab in TRM Academy).
Counter Narcotics
New darknet market coverage adds $215M in visibility
TRM added roughly $215M in newly visible narcotics proceeds, a 21% increase and the third consecutive month near $200M. New service heuristics covering marketplace deposit and escrow infrastructure contributed alongside deeper coverage of marketplaces already tracked, and the mix broadened: Western darknet markets added roughly $54M, up from about $12M the previous month.
Why it matters: A materially larger share of darknet-market drug proceeds is now traceable, and coverage holds when a marketplace reorganizes how it moves funds rather than decaying between rebuilds.
New fentanyl-linked attribution across the supply chain
TRM added $349M in newly attributed fentanyl-linked activity, driven almost entirely by retrospective attribution of laundering infrastructure that carries years of prior transaction history.
Why it matters: More of the fentanyl economy is traceable, with attribution reaching back across the full history of the networks moving the proceeds.
Facilitation and Money Laundering
Daily attributed illicit volume up 40%
TRM increased daily attributed illicit volume by 40% month-over-month. The gain reflects both new entity attribution and deeper coverage of services already tracked.
Why it matters: A larger share of illicit flow is visible and attributable on any given day, raising the odds that suspicious activity surfaces during screening and monitoring rather than being reconstructed after the fact.
New payment service deposit-address coverage
A new deposit-address heuristic for a payment service reached production, adding roughly 103,000 previously unlabeled deposit addresses.
Why it matters: Deposits routed through the service are now attributable rather than appearing unlabeled.
New cross-chain swap service attributed
TRM attributed a cross-chain swap service with almost no public footprint, with attribution now covering $130.6M in volume through its main Ethereum contract along with its Bitcoin deposit infrastructure. The service sits behind several mainstream wallet and swap interfaces, so funds routed through it were not obviously identifiable as having used it.
Why it matters: Funds can now be followed through a swap service that was effectively invisible, including where it is reached indirectly through third-party wallet interfaces.
Expanded coverage of Chinese-language guarantee services
TRM attributed additional Chinese-language guarantee and escrow services that underpin online scam-services marketplaces, including a newly created entity on TRON and its treasury infrastructure.
Why it matters: Scam-services marketplaces depend on a guarantee layer to broker their transactions, and that layer is now attributed.
Multiple new China-nexus gambling networks attributed
TRM attributed multiple China-nexus gambling networks, each typically operating across many sites, and several with notable exposure to scam networks.
Why it matters: Gambling networks are a common layer for moving illicit proceeds, and several of these connect directly to scam infrastructure. That exposure is now visible and traceable.
Fraud
+$281M in new scam-activity leads
TRM added $281M in new scam-activity leads.
Why it matters: More scam-linked funds are identified and actionable, expanding the pool of traceable leads.
Published analysis of the $116M Coldcard exploit
TRM published analysis of the largest hardware wallet exploit of 2026, tracing $116M drained from Coldcard wallets.
Why it matters: The year's largest hardware-wallet compromise is traced and documented, supporting exposure checks against the stolen funds.
H1 2026 hack analysis published
TRM published its H1 2026 hack analysis, finding that the number of crypto hacks reached a record high while total losses fell below $1B for the half.
Why it matters: The threat is shifting toward more frequent attacks with smaller average losses, quantified rather than reduced to a single headline number.
Sanctions
$6.3B traced through a newly designated Iran-linked exchange
OFAC designated Shelbit, an Iran-linked exchange, on 7 August. TRM published analysis tracing more than $6.3B in blockchain flows through Shelbit's infrastructure between May 2024 and March 2026.
Why it matters: Exposure to a newly designated exchange can be screened and traced, with 23 months of flow analysis behind it.
Expanded attribution of the A7 sanctions-evasion network
TRM added $2B in newly detected volume through A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network.
Why it matters: Customers can now screen and trace an additional ~$2B in A7-linked flow that was previously not detectable.
New Iran-linked exchange attribution
TRM shipped new heuristics covering Iran's domestic exchanges, adding roughly 127,000 addresses and $700M in newly attributed volume. A data partnership also doubled coverage of Iranian diaspora exchanges, from 14 to 29 entities.
Why it matters: Following OFAC's designation of Iran's major domestic exchanges, coverage now runs deeper across both the domestic platforms and the diaspora exchanges that connect them to the global market.
Attribution behind OFAC's ISKP terrorist-financing action
OFAC sanctioned 134 cryptocurrency addresses tied to roughly $2M in ISKP terrorist financing. TRM attributed the designated infrastructure and published analysis of how the group raises, moves, and conceals funds across currencies and platforms — building on TRM's tracking of the group's crypto donations since 2022.
Why it matters: Exposure to a designated terrorist-financing network can be screened and traced immediately, with the on-chain context behind the designation.
New coverage of sanctioned cybercrime infrastructure
OFAC designated FirstVPN, a VPN provider that sold anonymizing infrastructure to cybercrime groups, along with a sanctioned individual supplying malware-obfuscation services. TRM already maintained an attributed entity for FirstVPN before the designation and now covers the 20 newly listed addresses for FirstVPN and its administrator across eight blockchains — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Tron, Dogecoin, Dash, Zcash, and Solana.
Why it matters: The designated addresses are screenable across all eight chains immediately. The broader signal is that payments to anonymity and obfuscation services are worth treating as risk in their own right, not just the wallets of the groups buying them.
Blockchain support
New blockchain support: Midnight (NIGHT)
We've added new Standard support for Midnight (NIGHT). Support includes:
TRM Forensics
TRM Wallet Screening
TRM Transaction Monitoring
Ownership (all categories), counterparty (all categories), and indirect risk indicators (severe and high risk categories)
View all of our blockchain coverage in the Supported Blockchains page in Platform Information and learn more about TRM's blockchain support tiers.
Seed Analysis adds support for Polkadot, NEAR, Injective, and Bittensor
Seed Analysis expanded to multiple new blockchains, letting investigators derive addresses and detect on-chain activity for wallets across more networks. In the same period, a law enforcement agency recovered £800,000 in criminal assets using the tool alongside TRM's seizure training.
Why it matters: Investigators working seized wallets can recover activity across more networks without leaving the tool, and turn what they find into seizable assets.
Questions? Reach out to your TRM account team or contact us through the in-platform support widget.








