Leadership, Experience, and Advanced Asset Tracking
Our management team has worked continuously in the investigative and asset-location field since 1992. Over decades of practice, we have remained focused on one principle: staying ahead of how financial institutions actually operate—not how they are assumed to operate.
Asset Analysts provides specialized asset-location and ownership-exposure services in support of United States federal government operations, including civil and criminal asset seizure matters. With more than 25 years of investigative experience, our work focuses on identifying hidden or obscured assets through corporations, trusts, nominees, and layered ownership structures, delivering evidence-driven findings that support lawful enforcement and recovery actions.
As banking infrastructure evolved, we closely tracked the adoption of new settlement, clearing, and data-management technologies. As early as 2012, we identified blockchain-based ledger systems as a foundational shift in how banks would record and transmit account and transaction data. Recognizing the long-term implications, we invested early in the infrastructure required to store, preserve, and analyze distributed ledger data at scale.
Beginning in 2014, we started compiling blockchain transaction ledgers at inception, preserving uninterrupted ledger continuity from the genesis block forward. This early commitment is critical: distributed ledgers cannot be reconstructed retroactively. Firms that attempt to analyze blockchain-based banking systems today without historical continuity inevitably miss vast volumes of transactional data. Our ledger archive represents the largest and longest-maintained independent collection of enterprise banking blockchain data, outside of original platform operators.
Today, a significant and growing portion of financial institutions rely on blockchain-based systems for account servicing, settlement, and clearing functions. Asset-location methods that rely solely on traditional messaging or legacy banking infrastructure increasingly fail to detect these relationships. Distributed ledgers are not databases; meaningful analysis requires the complete transaction chain beginning at inception, as each ledger is cryptographically linked to the prior block and cannot be reliably interpreted in isolation.
Importantly, the systems we analyze are permissioned (private) enterprise blockchains, not public cryptocurrency networks such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. We do not track cryptocurrency wallets. Our focus is on institutional ledger systems used by banks, brokerages, and financial market infrastructure.
Enterprise Blockchain Platforms We Analyze
Our ledger continuity and analytical coverage includes major enterprise platforms used across global banking and financial services, including:
R3 Corda, utilized by hundreds of financial institutions worldwide, including major global banks
Hyperledger Fabric (Linux Foundation), widely used for cross-border settlement and enterprise financial applications
Quorum and permissioned Ethereum implementations
Digital Asset platforms supporting regulated financial markets
ASX distributed ledger infrastructure
Stellar and Ripple (XRP Ledger) for institutional payment and settlement use cases
In addition, we are actively integrating coverage for central bank digital currency (CBDC) frameworks and tokenized asset systems, supporting financial institutions and custodians as these platforms continue to mature.
Hyperledger Fabric (Linux Foundation) which is used by cross border payments.