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# Can Machine Learning Catch Criminals Before the Blockchain Does? – Report
- URL: https://blog.amlbot.com/can-machine-learning-catch-criminals-before-the-blockchain-does-report/
- Published: 2025-05-23T11:27:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-10T11:34:07.000Z
- Author: AMLBot Team
- Tags: Investigations & Case Studies

Traditional AML tools struggle to keep pace with the scale and speed of illicit activity in crypto. In this exploratory study, the AMLBot Team investigates whether behavior-based machine learning can spot suspicious entities **before** they appear on blacklists and how explainability tools like SHAP make this process transparent. 

We tested over 1,000+ behavioral features, built a classification model using gradient boosting, and evaluated it on millions of real clusters. The model is currently in **internal testing**, with results informing our roadmap toward production use.

Read the full research paper to explore our findings, SHAP plots, and what this means for the future of crypto compliance.

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