CipherTrace

Basics

• Founded by Stephen Ryan on May 31, 2016.
• Crypto analytics firm
• Owned by Mastercard (10-9-2021).

Tech

Monero

• From Decrypt (31-8-2020):

"Intelligence firm CipherTrace announced today that it has developed a toolset for tracing Monero (XMR) transactions—and that it has done so at the behest of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."

• From Cointelegraph (22-11-2020):

"In a Friday blog from CipherTrace, the firm states that the patents would include forensic tools to explore Monero transaction flows to assist in financial investigations, statistical and probabilistic methods for scoring transactions and clustering likely wallet owners, as well as visualization tools and ways to track stolen or illegally used XMR."

Team

• Stephen Ryan; founder
• Owned by Mastercard (10-9-2021).