Chainalysis and TRM Join Crypto Wallet Tracing Push Against Wildlife Trafficking

Chainalysis and TRM Labs have joined the “United for Wildlife” campaign to disrupt the payment networks behind illegal wildlife trafficking by expanding crypto wallet tracing. The initiative was launched at the United for Wildlife Business Forum in London, where technology, payments, telecom, transport and crypto companies agreed to target the online listings, money movement, and logistics channels used by trafficking networks. The crypto sector’s role is primarily financial tracing. Participating firms—including Chainalysis, TRM Labs, PayPal, Luno, Tether, and Circle—will work with law enforcement to identify and disrupt the flow of funds tied to trafficking networks. The coalition is also using a wider enforcement stack beyond crypto, including platform detection, bank monitoring, mobile-money surveillance, and transport screening. Chainalysis and TRM Labs plan to apply public-ledger forensics and wallet tracing to connect deposits and stablecoin/crypto transfers to compliant exchanges and payment services. Once wallets are identified, investigators can map clusters, flag exchange deposits, and support seizure or freezing requests. This approach is described as an extension of workflows already used in hacks, ransomware, sanctions cases, and exchange investigations—now applied to wildlife crime. The campaign also targets the “sales funnel” online by coordinating AI-based detection across major platforms such as Google, Meta, TikTok, Alibaba, eBay, and others. The first measurable outcomes are expected to include wallet labels, frozen funds, exchange referrals, law-enforcement cases, and disrupted payment routes connected to wildlife-trafficking activity—using crypto wallet tracing as a key investigative input.