How Inca Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Navigate Crypto

Inca Digital helps law enforcement agencies navigate crypto by transforming blockchain data into actionable intelligence. By combining powerful on-chain and off-chain capabilities with cross-market surveillance, Inca Digital helps agencies track illicit behavior, analyze digital evidence, and understand emerging threats.

While we offer a suite of specialized tools and data products, Inca Digital’s strength lies in a variety of services and human expertise. Inca works directly with investigators to decode blockchain activity, interpret DeFi protocols, and identify connections across crypto ecosystems. Whether it’s supporting a large-scale investigation or helping an agency build foundational understanding, Inca Digital empowers law enforcement to act confidently in the digital asset space.

Legal Cases Against Crypto Entities

Law enforcement agencies increasingly face challenges in holding malicious crypto actors accountable. Inca Digital works with our partners to track illicit behavior at scale, map entities involved in crypto-related crime, and build evidence for prosecution.

Example: Network of Entities related to Binance

Inca Digital’s analytics and surveillance capabilities help expose manipulative practices, track fund movements across exchanges, and connect wallet addresses to real-world identities. Whether it’s identifying shell entities hiding behind anonymity or tracking fraud rings operating across jurisdictions, Inca’s toolset offers visibility and assists with the preparation of legally sound case files.

Defrauded Individuals/Companies

Inca Digital helps law enforcement trace funds, determine where assets have moved, and support victims in recovering stolen or misappropriated assets. By combining proprietary tools and datasets with open-source intelligence, we deliver a comprehensive view of asset flows. These efforts can uncover broader schemes, contributing to larger investigations.

Inca Digital’s services include delivering on-chain subpoenas, which assists situations where the perpetrator may be pseudonymous. We have built a pipeline for hosting court documents and/or regulatory/law enforcement notices and serving blockchain wallet addresses via on-chain transactions. This pipeline allows us to notify implicated parties of legal, regulatory, or enforcement information as required. We cover multiple UTXO and EVM blockchains, and can rapidly expand to support additional networks as needed.

In a previous case involving a bad actor who defrauded two companies trading FTX debt claims for $5.6 million, Inca identified how the compromise occurred, traced the stolen funds to various exchanges, and uncovered related activity on the dark web pointing to a potential data breach ¹.

Inca Digital also has a dedicated arm called Inca Coalition dedicated to supporting victims of crypto scams ².

Ecosystem Investigations

Inca Digital assists law enforcement in understanding and investigating ecosystems through customized analysis and cross-market surveillance. Inca’s tools help verify or challenge the narratives presented by entities under scrutiny.

For example, during an investigation into a Russian cryptocurrency exchange, Inca Digital uncovered connections that had not been initially identified by law enforcement. These included links between individuals, affiliated entities, and market makers engaged in wash trading and other suspicious activities. We also identified potential money laundering, the banks facilitating these transactions, and the other exchanges that the money launderers were using. This intelligence supports law enforcement in building stronger cases and contributes to a safer, more transparent crypto ecosystem.

Lead Generation

Beyond fulfilling intelligence requests on past events and ongoing investigations, Inca Digital offers lead generation as a proactive service, empowering clients to stay ahead of emerging trends, spot opportunities in real time and respond with greater agility. This type of intelligence can be adjusted to requested parameters such as U.S. victims, theft amount thresholds, and the time in which a specific event occurred.

Inca’s lead generation capabilities not only surface hidden relationships and high-risk behavior but also enable law enforcement to prioritize where to direct investigative resources. By continuously monitoring blockchain activity and integrating open-source and proprietary data, we provide early signals that help prevent fraud, protect victims, and mitigate systemic threats before they escalate.

Conclusion

At Inca Digital, we empower law enforcement to navigate the complexities of the crypto ecosystem with clarity. We deliver actionable insights to help investigators cut through the complexities of crypto to build strong cases and bring bad actors to justice.

To learn more about Inca Digital can help law enforcement agencies deal with crypto crimes, get in touch with us at [email protected].