Ari Redbord
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 May
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That means like it can't just be a cadre anymore.
It has to be like every investigator has to have the capabilities because every crime is a financial crime.
And that means every crime is going to involve crypto in one way or another.
So my view is that like, yes, but they don't have the resourcing necessarily today that they need if that's the direction we're headed in.
Hey, love joining you.
Thank you for the conversation.
as the ecosystem grows, we're seeing lawful actors really, really leverage crypto infrastructure.
The growth of cryptocurrency exchanges, financial institutions getting more involved in the space.
We're finally seeing the use of stable coins for payments at scale.
So I think what we've done is we've seen crypto infrastructure grow, but we're also seeing illicit actors take advantage of crypto infrastructure.
So for example, the largest driver of illicit activity in 2025 was a Russia-based
related stable coin called A7A5.
That was the largest driver of sanctions activity, but also one of the largest drivers of overall illicit activity.
And that's very much infrastructure, right?
That's a nation state actor.
developing a stable coin, cryptocurrency, to evade sanctions at scale.
We've seen, you know, activity in places like Venezuela, where the state is involved in this activity.
We've seen North Korea continue to attack cryptocurrency exchanges and steal billions of dollars of funds.
So I would say we're seeing this move towards taking advantage of crypto infrastructure, which is something that's really helped drive illicit activity.
One of the reasons that illicit actors look to cryptocurrency is because it moves outside the US financial system.
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