Andrew Aleksandrov

Andrew Aleksandrov is CCO and Partner at AMLBot, where he leads commercial strategy, enterprise sales, and partnerships. With a background in banking and an MBA, he writes about crypto compliance, blockchain analytics, and financial crime.

TRM Labs Alternatives: Compare Wallet Screening, KYT, and Blockchain Analytics Platforms

TRM Labs Alternatives: Compare Wallet Screening, KYT, and Blockchain Analytics Platforms

TRM Labs' own product page lists Entity Due Diligence, Wallet Screening, Forensics, Know-Your-Asset, Transaction Monitoring, Bulk Data and Deconflict, alongside the BLOCKINT API, Triage, and an AI assistant for investigations. That is the first thing worth noticing about the phrase "TRM Labs alternatives": it treats

How to Test a Crypto AML/KYT Provider Before Signing a Contract

How to Test a Crypto AML/KYT Provider Before Signing a Contract

Two AML platforms can both claim wallet screening, transaction monitoring, sanctions detection, broad blockchain coverage, configurable rules, an API and case management. Side by side, the claims look interchangeable. What they do not show is whether both systems attribute the same wallet to the same entity, how many alerts each

Crypto AML & KYT Pricing: How to Compare Wallet Screening and Transaction Monitoring Costs

Crypto AML & KYT Pricing: How to Compare Wallet Screening and Transaction Monitoring Costs

Look at three crypto AML vendors with published pricing and you will find three different units. One sells a wallet report for a flat fee per report. Another sells packages measured in requests (10,000, 50,000, 250,000) with the price quoted on enquiry. A third charges roughly a

Crypto Investigations Report 2026

Investigations & Case Studies

Crypto Investigations Report 2026

Intro Between January 1 and October 13, 2026, AMLBot investigated more than 250 crypto crime incidents. Some were high-profile hacks and exploits that AMLBot traced on its own initiative or for exchanges, protocols and law enforcement; others were brought to AMLBot directly by victims. Together they carried $291.6

Bybit on Using AMLBot Tracer as an Independent Verification Layer

Bybit on Using AMLBot Tracer as an Independent Verification Layer

Bybit, the New Financial Platform trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, has adopted AMLBot Tracer as an independent verification layer in its investigative workflow — reflecting a growing industry standard: no single blockchain forensics provider is treated as the sole source of truth. With its own attribution data, clustering

AML for Crypto Payment Gateways: How to Screen Merchants, Payments, and Payouts

AML for Crypto Payment Gateways: How to Screen Merchants, Payments, and Payouts

Most crypto payment gateways settle in stablecoins. So does most crypto crime. In a targeted report published on 3 March 2026, the Financial Action Task Force noted that stablecoins had grown to more than 250 in circulation by mid-2025 with a combined market capitalisation above USD 300 billion — and

Build vs Buy Crypto AML/KYT: Should You Build Transaction Monitoring In-House?

Build vs Buy Crypto AML/KYT: Should You Build Transaction Monitoring In-House?

The engineering team says they can build it. They already run nodes, parse transactions, and have a data pipeline. How hard can monitoring be? The answer depends on what "monitoring" actually means. If the question is "can we see blockchain transactions?" — most engineering teams with blockchain

How Much Does AML Compliance Cost for a Crypto Startup?

How Much Does AML Compliance Cost for a Crypto Startup?

There is no single number. A non-custodial wallet provider processing 200 low-risk retail transactions per month and a custodial exchange onboarding business clients across three jurisdictions with continuous multi-chain monitoring are both "crypto startups." Their AML compliance budgets will have almost nothing in common. The

Where to Get a Crypto License in 2026: Major Markets and Offshore Options

Where to Get a Crypto License in 2026: Major Markets and Offshore Options

The founder has a clear plan: build the exchange, get the cheapest license, start operating. The licensing consultant sends a proposal — $15,000 all-in, ready in three weeks, offshore jurisdiction with zero corporate tax. It looks like the fastest path to market. 18 months later, the exchange has a

Why Crypto Wallets Get Flagged and What to Do about It

Why Crypto Wallets Get Flagged and What to Do about It

A joint guide by AMLBot × SimpleSwap A swap goes under review when transaction screening surfaces risk indicators in the history of the funds involved, either in the deposit you sent, or in the address the swap is due to pay out to. The review is about the history those funds

USDT/USDC Blacklist vs AML Risk Score: Who Can Actually Freeze Crypto?

USDT/USDC Blacklist vs AML Risk Score: Who Can Actually Freeze Crypto?

On 23 April 2026, $344 million in USDT stopped moving. Tether blacklisted two addresses on Tron after several U.S. authorities passed it information about activity tied to unlawful conduct, in coordination with OFAC and other law enforcement agencies. The company said this kind of action has become a routine

Global Crypto Travel Rule 2026: Which Jurisdictions Have Implemented It?

Global Crypto Travel Rule 2026: Which Jurisdictions Have Implemented It?

Ninety-one out of 109. That is how many surveyed jurisdictions had passed legislation implementing the Crypto Travel Rule when FATF published its Seventh Targeted Update on 16 July 2026 — 83%, up from 73% a year earlier, with another 11 jurisdictions reporting that implementation is under way. Read on its

Australia Crypto AML Regulations 2026: What Changed for VASPs and the Travel Rule

Australia Crypto AML Regulations 2026: What Changed for VASPs and the Travel Rule

On 8 May 2026, AUSTRAC put numbers on how closely it intended to watch Australia's crypto sector: 36 over-the-counter crypto-to-cash businesses under a supervisory campaign it branded ramps and rails, and 27 local exchanges under a second campaign focused on reform readiness and governance.

Third-Party Crypto Payments: How to Review Funds From Someone Other Than the Customer

Third-Party Crypto Payments: How to Review Funds From Someone Other Than the Customer

A customer passes KYC. Account approved. Risk level assigned. Two weeks later, 40,000 USDC arrives in their account — from a wallet that does not belong to them. The compliance team now has a verified customer and an unverified payment. The identity check answered who opened the account. It did

What Is the Risk-Based Approach in Crypto AML?

What Is the Risk-Based Approach in Crypto AML?

Two crypto customers. Both verified. Both onboarded. Customer A is a retail user with predictable transaction patterns, a known funding source, a low-risk jurisdiction, and activity that matches the declared purpose. Customer B is a corporate entity with opaque ownership, a high-risk geography, large unexplained transfers, frequent interactions

When an AML Check Is Not Enough: From Wallet Risk Score to Crypto Tracing

When an AML Check Is Not Enough: From Wallet Risk Score to Crypto Tracing

The AML check returned High Risk. Stolen Funds exposure. The number is there. The category is there. And the next question is not about the score. It is: which transfer created this exposure? Is it connected to the deposit being reviewed — or to something that happened in this wallet'

KYT Provider Migration: How to Switch Without Losing Your AML History

KYT Provider Migration: How to Switch Without Losing Your AML History

Nobody migrates a KYT provider because the old one works perfectly. The decision usually follows months of frustration — coverage gaps on chains the business now supports, slow API responses during peak volume, risk categories that do not match how the compliance team actually thinks about risk, alert logic that cannot

The Crypto Paper Trail for AML: What to Save Before an Exchange or Bank Asks

The Crypto Paper Trail for AML: What to Save Before an Exchange or Bank Asks

Imagine: 3 years ago you bought ETH on an exchange using a bank transfer. You withdrew it to a hardware wallet. Later you swapped half for USDC on a DEX, bridged it to another chain, received freelance payments in the same wallet, sold some through a P2P trade, and now

Wallet Drainer, Private-Key Theft, or Scam Transfer? What On-Chain Evidence Can Reveal

Wallet Drainer, Private-Key Theft, or Scam Transfer? What On-Chain Evidence Can Reveal

Intro "My wallet was hacked." Every crypto investigation team hears this sentence multiple times a week. And in almost every case, it describes the outcome — not the diagnosis. The balance was there. The assets moved. The recipient is unknown. The transaction cannot be reversed. From the victim'

Unknown Crypto Appeared in My Wallet: Dusting, Scam Tokens, and AML Risk

Unknown Crypto Appeared in My Wallet: Dusting, Scam Tokens, and AML Risk

You open your wallet and something is there that was not there before. Maybe it is a token you never bought. Maybe a fraction of a dollar in a cryptocurrency you do not recognize. Maybe an NFT from a project you have never heard of. Maybe a small USDT transfer

Why the Same Crypto Wallet Gets Different AML Results Across Platforms

Why the Same Crypto Wallet Gets Different AML Results Across Platforms

A user checks one Ethereum address using two different blockchain analytics tools. Platform A shows Low Risk. Platform B shows Medium Risk with mixer exposure flagged. The user then sends funds from that same wallet to an exchange — and the exchange places the deposit under manual review. The blockchain is

How to Test Crypto AML Rules Before They Affect Real Customers

How to Test Crypto AML Rules Before They Affect Real Customers

The compliance team lowers a mixer-exposure threshold from 5% to 2%. The change goes live on Monday morning. By Wednesday, alert volume has doubled. Legitimate exchange deposits — where a centralized service wallet has tiny residual indirect exposure from thousands of unrelated users — are now entering manual review. Analysts spend

ERC-4337 Account Abstraction and AML: How Smart Wallets Change Transaction Screening

ERC-4337 Account Abstraction and AML: How Smart Wallets Change Transaction Screening

A compliance system receives an Ethereum TXID. The top-level from address belongs to a Bundler — an infrastructure operator that submits transactions to the network. The top-level to address is EntryPoint — a shared contract that coordinates smart-wallet execution. Gas is paid through a Paymaster — a separate entity sponsoring

Proof of Reserves Is Not Proof of Clean Funds: What AML Checks Are Still Needed

Proof of Reserves Is Not Proof of Clean Funds: What AML Checks Are Still Needed

An exchange publishes its reserve wallet addresses. The balances match the reported snapshot. An auditor or verification provider confirms control of the selected wallets. Customers can verify their inclusion in the liabilities structure through a Merkle Proof. The company announces that its reserves are transparent and fully backed. But none

Self-Hosted Wallet Ownership Verification: What Crypto Businesses Can and Cannot Prove

Self-Hosted Wallet Ownership Verification: What Crypto Businesses Can and Cannot Prove

A verified customer adds an external withdrawal address to their account. The platform asks the customer to sign a challenge message with the corresponding private key. The signature is valid. The address is whitelisted as "customer-owned." Months later, an investigation reveals that the wallet is a company