Chainalysis identified 4,708 new country-to-country routes, but they carried just $2.64 billion of the $220.3 billion measured total.

The prediction market will deploy a custom on-chain detection model to flag insider activity.

Funds flowing to sanctioned entities jumped 694% year over year, making sanctions evasion the fastest-growing category of crypto crime.

Crypto outflows from Iranian exchanges spiked to $10.3 million, underscoring cryptocurrencies' role as financial safe havens during geopolitical crises.

Although hackers made less money overall last year, victims who paid faced far higher bills than a year earlier.

The payments represent an 85% year-over-year increase, according to the report.

Roughly $16 billion in illicit crypto flowed through Chinese-language Telegram-based networks in 2025.

Crypto scammers are increasingly using DeFi protocols, with total losses exceeding $17 billion in 2025.

North Korean hackers are increasingly moving stolen crypto through bridges or mixers.

U.S. crypto traders on CEXs overwhelmingly prefer BTC, while institutional funds pour into tokenized Treasuries and crypto ETFs.