TRM Labs + Unit21: On-chain risk native to your investigation workflow

Crypto and fintech compliance teams have been living with a split-brain problem: on-chain risk lives in one tool, fiat risk lives in another, and analysts are left stitching the two together by hand, exporting wallet screening results, pasting risk scores into tickets, and hoping nothing falls through the cracks in the handoff.

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This integration brings TRM's blockchain intelligence directly into Unit21 in two ways:

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• TRM Wallet Screening feeds Unit21's self-service rules engine. Risk level, risk indicators and categories, transaction volume, and entity associations get written natively onto the records your analysts already work from and become conditions you can build rules on, no custom pipeline required.

• TRM Transaction Monitoring Alerts flow directly into Unit21 case management, so crypto-related alerts sit in the same investigation queue as fiat alerts instead of a separate system.

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The practical effect: a wallet's risk signal, a rule condition, an investigated case, and a filed report all in one defensible workflow, instead of a manual bridge between tools.

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Why this matters for compliance teams

Most crypto and fintech compliance programs have built brittle, self-maintained pipelines to move blockchain intelligence into their case management system. Every export, every manual re-entry is a place where risk context gets stale or lost, and a gap that regulators will find. This integration removes that pipeline entirely: TRM's on-chain risk attribution becomes a first-class input into Unit21's detection and investigation layer, not a side channel analysts have to remember to check.

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"Financial crime doesn't respect payment rails. The infrastructure built to stop it shouldn't either," said Kunal Datta, Chief Product Officer at Unit21. "Compliance teams working crypto risk in one system and fiat in another have a gap, and gaps are where real activity gets missed. This integration makes TRM's blockchain intelligence native to Unit21's AI Agents, rules, and investigation workflows, so the system can work the full picture end-to-end: from the first on-chain signal to the filed report."

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"Unit21's customers are on the front lines of keeping the financial system safe," added Adam Williams, VP of Product at TRM Labs. "We're proud to support them with defensible attribution on over 3.1 billion addresses across granular risk categories, giving their teams the on-chain insights to confidently identify and act on crypto risk."

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What's next

Post-transaction wallet monitoring is live today. Next on the roadmap: real-time wallet screening on transactions, giving joint customers higher-confidence signals earlier in the workflow before risk settles, not after.

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This builds on Unit21's growing crypto compliance ecosystem, which already supports compliance teams at Crypto.com, Circle, Nexo, CoinList, and BitGo, among others.

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Unit21 and TRM Labs are marking the launch with a joint happy hour on July 30th at LondonHouse in Chicago. 

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Read the full announcement in the press release.