Public Key

How IRS-CI Follows The Crypto

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the last year alone, IRS-CI identified more than $10 billion in financial crime executed over 1400 warrants, seized hundreds of millions of dollars...

The Reality of FATF's Asset Recovery Guidance

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

FATF has rolled out their most comprehensive guidance on asset recovery and the entire digital asset industry should take notice.  In this episode,...

Crypto National Security and Pig Butchering

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

$15 Billion crypto seizures, SouthEast Asia scam compounds with thousands of victims and the life savings of hard working professionals being wiped ou...

FBI’s Murder-For-Hire Crypto Investigation

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The murder-for-hire case of Ron Ilg, seems like it was pulled directly from a Netflix documentary, but this is a real life case involving cryptocurren...

Crypto and Crime: Inside the FBI’s Virtual Assets Unit

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The FBI created the Virtual Assets Unit to spearhead the agency’s efforts alongside a network of distributed experts to combat the misuse of digital...

Inside the FBI: Crypto, Crime and National Security

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With over a decade of experience, James Barnacle (Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)) joins Jonathan Levin (CEO & Co...

The Future of UK’s Cyber and Crypto Policing

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The evolution of the cybercrime landscape in the UK has evolved rapidly and in this episode, Andrew Gould (Detective Chief Superintendent & Cyberc...

Digital Assets Transforming Finance in Singapore

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to hear insights from one of the most innovative banks in Singapore? In this episode, Evy Theunis, the Head of Digital Assets, Institution...

The Rise of Rollups in Crypto

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rollups have been the go-to solution for scaling blockchains while being able to maintain the security properties and credible neutrality that blockch...

Japan: Early Adopters In Crypto Regulation

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Collapse of Mt. Gox put regulators around the world on notice that digital assets could no longer be ignored. There is no regulator that got that ...

Tackling Tax Fraud with Data and AI

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode,  Jim Lee (Global Head of Capacity Building, Chainalysis) sits down with Richard Las (Chief Investigation Officer, Director Fraud Inv...

Policing the Metaverse

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If we look out 5-10 years, what is going to be more important to the next generation. Is it their digital life or their physical life? In this “Li...

Future of Ethereum: Scalability, Stablecoins and Innovation

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does someone who has been through multiple bear and bull markets in crypto, cope with such a volatile industry? Keep Building.  In this “Live f...

How Crypto is Transforming Traditional Banking

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Solana spot ETF applications, the OCC green lighting digital asset activity and the US emphasizing its desire to be the crypto capital of the world. ...

The Top Presidential Crypto Priorities

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“We want to achieve our goal of making this the crypto capital of the world.” These are huge aspirations coming from Bo Hines (Executive Director...

The Future of DeFi Payments

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode from our “Live from Links” series, where we take the hottest conversations that were recorded live from the Chainalysis ...

The Truth Behind Crypto, Sanctions and Illicit Finance

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conflict diamonds, sanctions evasion and the evolution of organized crime in digital assets. In this episode we cover all that and more with Eitan Dan...

Evolution of Stablecoin Innovation in 2025

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Want to know how stablecoins and crypto compliance technologies have advanced since 2017? Bill Plumeri (Compliance Executive, Agora) goes in-depth wit...

Risk Management in TradFi and DeFi

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered how technological advancements like AI and crypto are reshaping compliance frameworks in the traditional financial industry? O...

Crypto in Modern Day Conflict Zones

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this compelling episode of Public Key, Eitan Danon (Content Marketing Manager, Chainalysis) speaks with Yaya Fanusie (Director of Policy for AML &a...

The Chainalysis 2025 Crypto Crime Report Preview (Part 2)

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Darknet Markets, North Korean hackers, scams and ransomware.  We cover it all in part 2 of our exclusive Crypto Crime Report edition of Public Key. ...

Why Europe's DORA Could Change Crypto Landscape

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Will DORA regulation Change the way Financial Institutions and Crypto Assert Service Providers utilize technology providers like Fireblocks? In this ...

Crypto's Role in Global Sanctions and Trade

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you heard terms like Economic Statecraft, Jurisdictional Arbitrage or Axis of Evasion and wondered what they meant or how they applied to cryptoc...

Borderless Banking: Navigating US Crypto Regulations

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US has been viewed as having a regulation by enforcement policy, but now they are focusing on becoming the leader of blockchain and stablecoin leg...

How AWS is Driving the AI and Digital Asset Revolution

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You can’t go to a crypto conference in 2025 without a company or a speaker mentioning the convergence of AI and digital assets. In this episode, J...

The Chainalysis 2025 Crypto Crime Report Preview (Part 1)

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the Chainalysis 2025 Crypto Crime Report about to be released and the news about Bybit and the largest crypto hack in history, there is no better...

Bridging The Public-Private Sector Gap in Crypto

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“We should be able to dare criminals to use blockchain and cryptocurrency to conduct laundering. We should be able to dare them to launder on a publ...

The Scamdemic: New Age of Crypto, AI and Fraud:

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A Scamdemic is something we could have never imagined, but with the evolution of blockchain, crypto and AI we are right in the middle of the new age o...

Top Crypto Predictions For 2025

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Solana, AI agents, predictions markets and memecoin culture. These are just some of the many  predictions that anonymous crypto veteran, @redphonecry...

What You Need To Know About Crypto and National Security

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cryptocurrency has woven its way into the tapestry of geopolitical tensions, the evolving landscape of national security and the future of strategic p...

Reshaping the Future of Stablecoins

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The global stablecoin legislation discussion is increasing every day, but if you have a framework in Singapore, that's independent from the EU and the...

How IRS Criminal Investigation Unit Tackles Crypto Crimes

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The criminal landscape is evolving and nobody knows this better than the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit, who has been an international leade...

Crypto's Role in Modern Geopolitical Chess

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tensions in the Middle East, Trump’s incoming administration, and BRICS’ exploration of de-dollarization, have com...

Everything You Need To Know About Seizing Crypto

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it is seizing restaurants, hotels, cars or Bitcoin, our guest, Joanna Summers, Chief Recovery Officer of Asset Reality, has done it all with o...

Combating Fraud in Crypto in 2025

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Tommy Nicholas (CEO of Alloy) wrote a blog titled, Your Fraud Model Is Broken, you had to know he and Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) were going t...

Simplifying Crypto Payments for Micro Transactions

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is the point of having an alternative to the traditional payment network like cryptocurrency, if you can’t use it to buy a coffee or a pair of ...

Key Management: The Future of Web3 Security

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to Riad Wahby, the Co-founder & CEO of Cubist, a company that stands at the forefront of pr...

Everything You Need To Know About Cross-Border Crypto Payments

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world of international payments has been innovating over the last few years and many think it’s because of the increased usage of cryptocurrency...

Stablecoins Launch the Decade of Digital Dollars

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Lack of faith in local economic policies, it's political instability, it's depreciating currency, it's runaway inflation. So it's all these economi...

Operation Hackstone: Cross-Border Crypto Investigations

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional financial crime has evolved from robbing banks to now draining crypto wallets and law enforcement is expected to keep up with this lightni...

Using Innovation to Overcome Blockchain Data Challenges

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“We don't look at ourselves as a compliance company or an audit company or accounting company. We look at ourselves as a data company, first. Becaus...

Everything You Need To Know About Crypto Cartels

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Almost 110,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023 and 80 percent of those deaths were attributed to fentanyl, which is unprecedented in Americ...

Inside the Rapid Growth of Real World Asset Tokenization

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tokenization of real world assets is all the rage in crypto for 2024 and  Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis)  sits down with Chris Tyrrell, Chief Risk a...

Building Bridges to Tackle Pig Butchering

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

3 times a charm! This is the 3rd time Erin West (Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County, Office of the District Attorney) has appeared on the po...

How Tether is Building Resilient and Decentralized Financial Systems

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we think about the crypto company that has cracked the real world adoption problem and given access to people internationally who want access to ...

Regulating the Future: ADGM's Blueprint for Decentralization

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you are an active listener of this podcast, guests keep coming to this word decentralization.  But the definition of decentralization is quite vag...

Unraveling Russia's Crypto Sanctions Evasion and Disinformation Campaigns

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Russia has become an international force using cryptocurrency for sanctions evasion, ransomware attacks and most recently malign interference in the U...

How Web3 Privacy Will Revolutionize DeFi

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why build another DeFi product or platform when there are already so many? Well that is both a good question and an unfortunate problem highlighted ...

Unlocking 21 Million BTC to secure the DeFi Economy

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin is back. It could be attributed to the increasing prices, Bitcoin ordinals or the development of Layer 2 initiatives on the most secure blockc...

The Birth of Chainalysis: Building the First Blockchain Analytics Company

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Very rarely do you get to listen to top visionaries like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman talk about technological shifts that changed the world, ...

Everything You Need To Know About Decentralized Oracles

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many in the world of DeFi have heard about and rely on oracles like Chainlink and Pyth Network for their trusted data feeds, but there is a new protoc...

How Travel Rule Regulation is Shaping Crypto Transactions

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Travel Rule has recently seen regulatory implementations in various jurisdictions, but are VASPs complying?   In this episode, Ian Andrews (CMO, ...

The Secret Weapon Fighting Transnational Crypto Crime

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“The sophistication in the criminal world at hiding their fingerprints across the digital footprint is incredibly sophisticated now as well."  - Jo...

Building the First Solana Virtual Machine L2 on Ethereum

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine if you could combine the speed of a cheetah with the size of an elephant. Well in this episode, that's exactly what Eclipse Labs and their CEO...

Operation Cronos: Infiltrating the LockBit Ransomware Syndicate

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wonder what goes into taking down the world’s biggest ransomware group. Well in this episode   Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to  Phil...

Explore IPFS, Filecoin and Crypto Policy Developments

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the evolution and the capabilities of AI and the questioning of authenticity during the time of Presidential elections, it is getting increasingl...

The Future of Layer 2 Blockchains

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The best, the winner of this [web3] space, or the biggest player of this space, will be the one who will provide the best experience for developers a...

The Innovation of Tax and Accounting in the Digital Asset Era

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There's tens of billions of dollars of uncollected taxes on the crypto side, so hence why you have the Treasury Department and IRS pretty motivated t...

Special Podcast Episode: Accel Spotlight On Chainalysis (Jackie Burns Koven)

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With any new technology, malicious actors exploit vulnerabilities and create uncertainty. But there are tools investigators, regulators, and cybersecu...

Illuminating the Shadows of Web3 Hacks

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“We also should not pretend that law enforcement is going to solve the problem.  It only helps, but it doesn't completely solve the problem. There ...

Everything You Need To Know About the Tokenization of Assets

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wall Street is buzzing with tons of digital asset acronyms like DLT, CBDCs, RWA and Bitcoin ETFs. But what does it all mean? Well, Ian Andrews (CMO, C...

Crypto Exchange Growth Amidst Regulatory Challenges

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“You might think it's risky now to enter crypto. But I can promise you that time is going to flip very quickly where it's going to be risky not to e...

The Technology that will Change the Future of Crypto

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we started this podcast just over 2 years ago, Bitcoin ordinals and inscriptions weren’t even born yet and centralized crypto exchanges releasi...

Cracking Down on SIM-Swapping, Pig Butchering and Crypto

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States… But nowhere in there does it say, 'Oh, except for the internet. We can't go int...

Ransomware and the Crypto Threat Landscape in 2024

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh off the stage of the Links Conference,  Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to Andrew Davis (General Counsel, Kivu Consulting), who presented...

Terrorist Financing in the Age of Cryptocurrency

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"In a way, if you were a juror on this case, you got educated on cryptocurrency, terrorist financing, and also the Syrian Civil War." - Edward Burns I...

The Future of Banking, DLT & Digital Assets

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I'm not excited for what blockchain and DLTs can bring to the banking ecosystem, but I'm more excited to see how working on the same technology will ...

How Crypto Fuels Trade Based Money Laundering

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to Michael Firing (Assistant Director, Field Operations, Center for Intelligence, Targeting, an...

The Response to North Korea’s Crypto Heists

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"We need to think about more creative ways in order to get at the ultimate issue here, which is that they're generating revenue for their weapons of m...

Everything You Need to Know About Crypto Regulations in 2024

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“I think what's interesting is there is a lot of regulation in the US. It's just not cohesive and specific to this space except for places like New ...

USA Crypto Compliance Trends in 2024

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From the Bitlicense to OFAC Sanctions, Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) and guest Valerie-Leila Jaber (Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering, Coinbase) c...

How Ukrainian Cyber Police are Fighting Russian Hackers

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“They want to destroy as many of our systems and resources as they can get the access to." - Yevhenii In this episode Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis)...

The Path Forward for Binance Compliance Program

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Compliance always needs to be improving.” - Noah  In this episode Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to Noah Perlman (Chief Compliance Officer,...

The Company That's Stopping Web3 Cyber Attacks

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if there is a company that can detect web3 cyber attacks and hacks before they happen? In this episode Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to G...

Everything (Including Blockchain) is Bigger in Texas

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everything is Bigger in Texas.  Especially blockchain technology and Bitcoin mining operations.  Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to Lee Bratch...

Navigating Complex Crypto and DeFi Taxes

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year in the USA where the trees are blossoming, the winter jackets are being packed away for the season and there is only one thin...

The Truth About Crypto Insider and Wash Trading

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"To really understand market integrity, you need to be able to monitor for market abuse and other forms of illicit finance, on and off-chain." This is...

Unlocking Crypto Insights From 100 Episodes of Public Key

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this milestone 100th episode, host Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) takes a break from his usual role and hands the reins over to Kim Grauer (Directo...

What You Need To Know About Crypto Market Manipulation

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With Bitcoin reaching all-time highs we thought it would be best for us to revisit one of our most downloaded episodes on Public Key discussing Crypto...

The Best of Public Key's Pig Butchering Episodes

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’ve got a special episode for you. Over the nearly two years since we started the podcast one of our most frequent topics has been the c...

The Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report Review

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The highly anticipated Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report is being downloaded worldwide and Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to the driving for...

Uncovering the World of Seized Digital Assets

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it is seizing restaurants, hotels, cars or Bitcoin, our guest, Joanna Summers, Chief Recovery Officer of Asset Reality, has done it all with o...

Everything You Need To Know About Stablecoin Regulation

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stablecoin regulations have been slowly popping up around the world and in this episode, Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) speaks to the newly appointed ...

The Future of Early-Stage Blockchain Investing

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“We invest in two people and an idea” is not a statement we heard much during the downturn in the crypto market, but in this episode,  Ian Andrew...

Stopping Pig Butchering and Crypto Scam Epidemic

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Investment schemes, pig butchering and romance scams are plaguing the crypto industry and in this episode Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) finds out fro...

The Rise of Malicious DApps in Web3

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis)  was recording this episode with Raz Niv (Co-founder and CTO, Blockaid) back in December of 2023, the web3 indust...

Everything you Need to Know About Spot Bitcoin ETFs

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hooray !! Spot Bitcoin ETFs are finally approved by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) in what is being called a watershed moment for crypto. No...

The Regulatory Landscape of Crypto Hedge Funds

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Has Dubai’s crypto regulatory licensing process become the most stringent in the world? In this episode,  Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) gets the ...

Everything you Need to Know About Fan Tokens

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fan Tokens and SportsFi might be very new terms to some in the crypto industry, but probably not to the biggest soccer and football fans around the wo...

2023 Crypto Year in Review

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2023 has been a bit chaotic in the crypto industry. There are more questions than anything else, but in this episode,  Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis)...

The Future of Digital Assets and Self-Custody

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You wouldn’t expect a centralized crypto exchange to be launching a self-custody digital asset product, but  Simon McLoughlin (CEO, Uphold) speaks ...

Crypto Custody and Institutional Adoption

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The year is 2023 and crypto prices are rising, so why are we approaching private key management like the pirates secured gold in the 1700s? In this e...

Combatting Fraud in Crypto and Fintech Industry

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Tommy Nicholas (CEO of Alloy) wrote a blog titled, Your Fraud Model Is Broken, you had to know he and Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) were going t...

Tennessee AG on Crypto, Consumer Protection and Opioid Crisis

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As a young prosecutor, Jonathan Skrmetti (Tennessee Attorney General) worked on cases that had similar plots to the movie, Training Day. His early cas...

GEO Report: Crypto Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our 2023 GEO Report revealed that across the Sub-Saharan African region, centralized exchanges are the most-used platform type, facilitating over half...

What You Need to Know About Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Decentralization will not, absolutely not, be the reason for the average user to use Web3. The average user is not going to use Web3 until it's as ea...

Decentralized Insurance is Revolutionizing the Industry

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bridge hacks, phishing scams and malicious code draining wallets have forced consumer protection to be a top priority in the crypto and DeFi industry....

New U.S. Regulations for Crypto Tax Reporting

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When we want to understand the new IRS proposed regulations on digital asset brokers, Ian Andrews (CMO, Chainalysis) knows to speak to Roger Brown (Gl...

Driving Web3 Adoption in TradFi

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Driving Web3 Adoption in TradFi Real world asset tokenization is all the hype with traditional institutions looking to delve into the world of web3, b...

Crypto and its Convergence with Institutional Trading

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto and its Convergence with Institutional Trading Institutional investment has long been the key to mass adoption in the crypto industry but with ...