Chainalysis-led operation flags 7,700 accounts in child abuse probe

This is less a crypto story than a compliance story: blockchain analytics is being used not to trace stolen funds but to generate investigative leads at scale, which puts exchanges and payment processors in the position of being the intake channel for law enforcement. The operational burden falls on those 11 platforms, which must now triage flagged accounts under existing reporting obligations. The open question is whether this becomes a repeatable model for other crime categories, and how the false-positive rate is handled as analytics moves from tracing to proactive flagging.