Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis has launched a new automation feature aimed at broadening access to onchain investigation and compliance tools beyond technical users.
The feature, called Workflows, allows investigators and compliance teams to run predefined blockchain analyzes without writing code, reducing reliance on custom SQL or Python queries.
Chainalysis told Cointelegraph that the tool aims to standardize common investigation processes with pre-built templates, making them easier to replicate and implement in many cases, as the company customizes its data products for a wide range of users.
“What previously required technical expertise and a lot of time can now be done by any user in minutes,” said Ekim Buyuk, senior product manager at Chainalysis. “Instead of asking users to understand the data schema, it asks investigation-level questions such as which actors, wallets or time frames matter.”
Buyuk said fraud and scam networks are often quick to adopt new technologies to enhance their operations, pointing to Chainalysis research indicating that AI-enabled scams extort 4.5 times more money from victims. He said this pattern shows the type of activity investigators and compliance teams are being asked to monitor.
One challenge in investigating scams is that the amount stolen from a single victim may not seem very high on a relative scale, but blockchain analysis can uncover fraudulent networks with hundreds or thousands of victims on the scale of billions of dollars.
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Crypto scams and frauds in late 2025
A recent report from Chainalysis estimates that crypto scams and fraud will drain nearly $17 billion in 2025, driven by the rise in impersonation schemes and the increasing industrialization of fraudulent operations relying on AI, deepfakes, and professional money-laundering networks.
Several events at the end of the year underlined those risks. On January 2, an attacker breached hundreds of wallets on the Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible network, stealing less than $2,000 per address, in what onchain investigator ZachXBT described a widespread but low-value exploit that may be related to the Ledger hack.
Social-engineering attacks also continue, with ZachXBT recently identifying a suspected scammer who impersonated Coinbase customer support and stole approximately $2 million in 2025.
Still, blockchain security company PeckShield said overall crypto hacking losses declined sharply in December, with total losses from hacks and exploits falling to about $76 million, down 60% from November’s $194.2 million.
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