For business
KYT office
Compliance solution to monitor risks, detect sanctions and ensure AML rules.
KYT office
Compliance solution to monitor risks, detect sanctions and ensure AML rules.
AML certification
How industry players can get up-to-date knowledge and professional certification.
AML certification
How industry players can get up-to-date knowledge and professional certification.
Comprehensive transaction analytics that helps to build graphs and trace funds.
Graph
Travel rule
(soon)
For personal use
Telegram bot
Bot for checking crypto for risks, providing AML reports.
Telegram bot
Bot for checking crypto for risks, providing AML reports.
Getting money back
Services are focused on tracking
and recovering crypto assets.
and recovering crypto assets.
Getting money back
Services are focused on tracking
and recovering crypto assets.
and recovering crypto assets.
Docs and reports
All types of documents related
to cryptocurrency.
to cryptocurrency.
Docs and reports
All types of documents related
to cryptocurrency.
to cryptocurrency.
Portfolio tracker
Information about all assets and risk assessment in one place.
Portfolio tracker
Information about all assets and risk assessment in one place.
AML checks
Сhecking wallets and transactions
for illicit funds.
for illicit funds.
AML checks
Сhecking wallets and transactions
for illicit funds.
for illicit funds.
AML-сертификация
Актуальные знания в области AML/KYT от ведущих экспертов отрасли.
AML-сертификация
Актуальные знания в области AML/KYT от ведущих экспертов отрасли.
Graph
Визуализация перемещения активов
и связей между кошельками.
и связей между кошельками.
Graph
Визуализация перемещения активов
и связей между кошельками.
и связей между кошельками.
KYT Office
Мониторинг транзакций и кошельков для вашего отдела комплаенса.
KYT Office
Мониторинг транзакций и кошельков для вашего отдела комплаенса.
Для себя
Для Бизнеса
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Телеграм-бот
Бот для проверки кошельков и транзакций с выдачей отчётов.
Телеграм-бот
Бот для проверки кошельков и транзакций с выдачей отчётов.
Возврат средств
Услуги по отслеживанию и возврату украденных криптоактивов.
Возврат средств
Услуги по отслеживанию и возврату украденных криптоактивов.
AML-проверки
Проверка кошельков и транзакций на наличие "грязной" криптовалюты.
AML-проверки
Проверка кошельков и транзакций на наличие "грязной" криптовалюты.
Портфолио трекер
Информация о всех активах и оценка рисков в одном месте.
Портфолио трекер
Информация о всех активах и оценка рисков в одном месте.
Отчёты
Все типы документов связанные
с криптовалютой.
с криптовалютой.
Отчёты
Все типы документов связанные
с криптовалютой.
с криптовалютой.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Why virtual asset recovery is becoming increasingly critical and how FATF’s 2025 guidance reshapes global standards.
2. Key Updates in FATF’s 2025 Recommendations: Overview of the most important changes.
3. Tools and Expertise Needed for Effective Virtual Asset Recovery: Summary of essential investigative resources: blockchain analytics, AML training, automated risk monitoring, and responsive investigation teams.
4. Proactive Asset-Recovery Strategy: How technology, cooperation, and structured procedures enhance recovery outcomes and strengthen global crime-disruption efforts.
5. Conclusion
1. Introduction: Why virtual asset recovery is becoming increasingly critical and how FATF’s 2025 guidance reshapes global standards.
2. Key Updates in FATF’s 2025 Recommendations: Overview of the most important changes.
3. Tools and Expertise Needed for Effective Virtual Asset Recovery: Summary of essential investigative resources: blockchain analytics, AML training, automated risk monitoring, and responsive investigation teams.
4. Proactive Asset-Recovery Strategy: How technology, cooperation, and structured procedures enhance recovery outcomes and strengthen global crime-disruption efforts.
5. Conclusion
As illicit actors continue to leverage the speed, pseudonymity, and borderless nature of digital assets, the ability to trace and recover criminal proceeds within the crypto ecosystem has become more critical than ever.
The crypto industry aligns its practices with the FATF’s global standards, and the organisation’s newly released Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices serves as a foundational reference for practitioners across the sector — including government authorities, crypto-compliance vendors, investigative teams, and virtual asset service providers (VASPs).
The document revises the 2023 FATF Recommendations on asset recovery, modernising key terminology, refining methodological approaches for digital-asset tracing and seizure, and establishing clearer expectations for industry participants worldwide.
This article outlines the most significant changes introduced in the updated guidance and provides an overview of practical strategies and tools that can strengthen effective crypto-asset recovery efforts.
The crypto industry aligns its practices with the FATF’s global standards, and the organisation’s newly released Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices serves as a foundational reference for practitioners across the sector — including government authorities, crypto-compliance vendors, investigative teams, and virtual asset service providers (VASPs).
The document revises the 2023 FATF Recommendations on asset recovery, modernising key terminology, refining methodological approaches for digital-asset tracing and seizure, and establishing clearer expectations for industry participants worldwide.
This article outlines the most significant changes introduced in the updated guidance and provides an overview of practical strategies and tools that can strengthen effective crypto-asset recovery efforts.
Highlighted recommendations by FATF
Highlighted recommendations by FATF
FATF encourages jurisdictions to formally classify virtual assets (VA) as a standalone asset category across the entire recovery lifecycle — from detection and tracing to seizure, valuation, management and final disposition.
- Enhancing Operational Awareness at Every Point of Engagement
- Professional Training
- Blockchain Analytics
- Asset Recovery as a Policy Priority
- Co-operation and transparency
Tech Tools and Expert knowledge to back up your investigation
Tech Tools and Expert knowledge to back up your investigation
Every actor involved in a crypto investigation requires clear protocols and structured guidance at each stage of the process. Below, we outline the key tools and competencies essential for effective investigations and incident response.
Blockchain Analytics Platforms
Blockchain Analytics Platforms
The market offers a range of both free and commercial blockchain analytics solutions. BitOK’s primary investigation tool is Graph. Graph is made for blockchain investigators, compliance officers and financial intelligence units. It delivers in-depth analytics, clustering of addresses for uncovering hidden links and risks, allowing to analyse even the most complex schemes quickly.
Graph underpins our forensic reporting, including major cases such as The largest Tether freeze of 2025. Its analytical depth and visualization capabilities make it fundamental for any comprehensive blockchain investigation.
Graph underpins our forensic reporting, including major cases such as The largest Tether freeze of 2025. Its analytical depth and visualization capabilities make it fundamental for any comprehensive blockchain investigation.
Crypto Financial-Investigation Training
Crypto Financial-Investigation Training
Proper certification is essential for professionals engaged in AML, compliance, or crypto-related investigations. AML accreditation — preferably from institutions specializing in digital-asset compliance — is strongly recommended. Seek training from recognized organizations offering crypto-focused AML and blockchain-forensics education to ensure your expertise meets current regulatory and industry standards. The BitOK certified AML training course will become available in 2026.
Automated Risk Detection (Mixers, Darknet Exposure, Sanctioned Addresses)
Automated Risk Detection (Mixers, Darknet Exposure, Sanctioned Addresses)
Continuous transaction monitoring remains a foundational requirement for all crypto-asset businesses. BitOK covers all business needs for crypto monitoring in KYT Office, an automated risk-detection and monitoring solution that identifies high-risk patterns — including mixer exposure, darknet-related activity, and interactions with sanctioned entities — helping organizations maintain ongoing compliance and mitigate operational risks.
Responsive Compliance & Investigations Team
Responsive Compliance & Investigations Team
Most companies engaged in crypto payments maintain a compliance function; however, fewer have an in-house forensic investigations team. Effective crypto-crime investigation demands specialized expertise, familiarity with criminal typologies, and advanced analytical skills.
If an incident occurs, it is critical to engage an investigation team immediately—delays significantly reduce the likelihood of successful asset recovery. BitOK maintains a dedicated investigations unit ready to respond and initiate forensic procedures without delay. Getting the money back can help with both corporate crypto investigations and in personal requests.
If an incident occurs, it is critical to engage an investigation team immediately—delays significantly reduce the likelihood of successful asset recovery. BitOK maintains a dedicated investigations unit ready to respond and initiate forensic procedures without delay. Getting the money back can help with both corporate crypto investigations and in personal requests.
Stay ahead of crypto risk alerts
Stay ahead of crypto risk alerts
The digital-asset landscape presents significant opportunities for criminals, but also new avenues for recovery when matched with the right tools, frameworks and partnerships. By aligning with FATF’s standards and adopting a proactive, technology-enabled asset-recovery strategy, stakeholders can disrupt financial crime, restore broken trust in digital finance, and ensure that criminal profits are neither hidden nor enjoyed.
Effective crypto-asset recovery is not a technical challenge alone — it is an organisational process that requires cooperation among law enforcement, regulators, VASPs, financial institutions, policymakers and technology partners.
By following structured steps, using the right tools, and collaborating across borders, jurisdictions can dramatically improve recovery rates and disrupt the financial incentives for cybercrime, fraud, money laundering and organised crime.
The BitOK team forensic practice is fully aligned with the recent FATF update and is outlined here.
Effective crypto-asset recovery is not a technical challenge alone — it is an organisational process that requires cooperation among law enforcement, regulators, VASPs, financial institutions, policymakers and technology partners.
By following structured steps, using the right tools, and collaborating across borders, jurisdictions can dramatically improve recovery rates and disrupt the financial incentives for cybercrime, fraud, money laundering and organised crime.
The BitOK team forensic practice is fully aligned with the recent FATF update and is outlined here.
