How national security agencies are using blockchain intelligence (BLOCKINT) to disrupt threat actors

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a move to a digital battlefield, where wars, in part, are fought in cyberspace and across blockchains. The promise of blockchain technology—cross-border value transfer at the speed of the internet for humanitarian aid, remittances, and payments—is being weaponized by malign actors who also seek to move funds for sanctions evasion, weapons proliferation, terrorist financing, ransomware, and other illicit activity.

The native properties of public blockchains—data that is transparent, traceable, and permanent—enables government agencies to leverage blockchain intelligence, or BLOCKINT, to identify risks more readily and more effectively so they can take action against illicit actors. Not unlike conventional battlefield intelligence, the tools of blockchain intelligence capture threat activity, threat intent, and threat vulnerabilities. Through this advantage, intelligence analysts and officials can deny, degrade, and disrupt threat actors on the digital battlefield.

Learn how national security agencies are using BLOCKINT in TRM Labs’s latest white paper, here.