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Cylynx Cryptocurrency News API automatically scrapes news sources and generates risk scores, making risk information on crypto-entities readily available and accessible.

In this article, we show how a tool like Motif could be used to augment existing collected data and simplify the analysis of supply chains.

A walkthrough on using graph analytics to query for patterns of interest on Uniswap with the help of Bigquery, Neo4j and Motif.

Motif makes visual discovery on graph datasets simple and accessible to analysts, data scientists and managers.

An investigative report explaining what cryptocurrency exit scams and DeFi rug pulls are, how they are carried out, and the tracing and investigations of such crypto frauds.

Co-founder Timothy Lin is featured on Channel News Asia's "On the Red Dot" and CNA 93.8. This post contains a transcript of the radio interview and CNA's documentary footage.

We evaluated 8 different graph visualisation packages in areas spanning performance, algorithms and components

Cyberattacks are often closely related to financial crime as the recent DOJ indictment charges show. We highlight key takeaways from the report.

To what extent are Cryptocurrency prices being driven by institutional investors or retail traders? We explore this question and more with a deep dive into 3 on-chain metrics which investors or anyone interested in the virtual asset markets should keep track of.

An overview of how natural language processing methods (NLP) can be used to tag adverse news reports for cryptocurrency monitoring - a joint project with NUS Business Analytics students.

We present a guide to using machine learning for fraud detection, going through the advantages of ML vs rule-based methods, use cases and some important considerations to keep in mind when adopting such an approach.

Singapore/Hong Kong, 15 December 2020 – Cylynx has been recognised as 'One to Watch' in Blockchain Transaction Monitoring in the 3rd Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2020 in an online ceremony on 15 December 2020.

Structuring of Funds. Use of Mixers / Tumblers. Doctored identities. What are the AML red flags that you should be aware of? A summary of money laundering and terrorist financing indiciators highlighted by the FATF.

More than 2,000 suspicious transaction reports filed by nearly 90 financial institutions were leaked. We go through what are SARs, discuss the broader implications, analyse a sample dataset made public and share our thoughts on what it takes to fix the problem.

The G20 TechSprint initiative, aims to highlight the potential for technologies to resolve regulatory compliance and supervisory challenges. Team Cylynx is shortlisted as one of the finalists in the problem statement of monitoring AML/CFT risks on crypto assets.

With its total market cap exceeding $10 Billion in May 2020, stable coins are becoming increasingly popular with investors in the cryptocurrency space. In this article, we investigate 5 popular ERC20 stable coin - TUSD, USDT, PAX, USDC and BUSD. Through a combination of time series analysis and network plots, we characterise their growth trajectory and highlight key patterns and behaviours.

The structure of a blockchain fits very naturally into a graph representation, with addresses being the nodes and transactions being the edges of a graph. By modelling the blockchain as a graph, we can get a comprehensive view of the activities that are on-going and how the different entities are related to each other.

Being the central gateway in the cryptocurrency world, it is surprising how little work has been done to characterise the structure of exchanges. This includes their governance structure, how they receive funds and carry-out transactions on behalf of their users. In this post, we analyse the structure of exchanges on the ethereum chain