The Challenge
The advent of cryptocurrencies unlocked opportunities for legitimate innovation, but at the same time, offered a new platform for facilitating criminal and terrorist activities, offering a degree of perceived anonymity and freedom from centralised control and oversight.
Law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) face significant challenges in adapting to rapidly evolving technological developments and emerging applications of cryptocurrencies, with cross-border transactions further compounding these challenges. At the same time, legislation accross countries lacks harmonisation and still plays catch-up to technological developments. Inescapably, to be effective, the response to the emerging (possibly cross-border) cryptocurrency-facilitated criminal/terrorist (CFCT) activities must match their characteristics.
CryptoACTION’s Solution
CryptoACTION represents Europe’s most ambitious attempt to date in equipping LEAs with mission-appropriate tools to support investigations pertaining to Cryptocurrency-Facilitated Crime and Terrorism (CFCT) activities, improve investigation operations including external collaboration workflows and provide comprehensive training curricula for LEAs/ prosecutors/judiciary and the world’s first cryptorange. It will deliver an ecosystem of independent but interoperable lawful-investigation tools offering AI co-piloting capabilities to enhance investigator efficiency and supporting the intelligent corelation of blockchain data, structured data from anti-CFCT databases, text, audio and visual data modalities, stemming from lawful surveillance activities and darknet/deepnet/clearnet scraping.
Discover the project at a glance. Read and download the CryptoACTION brochure — available in six languages (English, French, Greek, German, Finnish, and Romanian).
Advanced LEA Tools
Enhanced Operations and Information Flow
Collaborative Capacity Bulding
Performance Monitoring and Recommedations
Approach and Methodology
CryptoACTION adopts a multi-layered, interdisciplinary approach combining:
Research and Analysis
Mapping trends, gaps, and regulatory challenges in CFCT
Technology Development
Designing AI-enabled tools for lawful crypto investigations
Data Ecosystems
Establishing a federated dataspace for trusted intelligence exchange
Capacity Building
Training LEAs, prosecutors, and judiciary through the Cryptorange
Co-Design & Validation
Tools developed with LEAs to ensure operational relevance
Policy Engagement
Providing recommendations for transparent and accountable regulation
IMPACT
CryptoACTION’s Impact
- Operational Impact: Stronger, faster, and more coordinated crypto investigations. Improved interoperability between LEAs, Europol, and INTERPOL
- Regulatory & Policy Impact: Recommendations for explainable AI and transparent tools. Contribution to the European Security Data Space
- Societal Impact: Increased trust in lawful use of AI and data. Safer digital environment for citizens and economies
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