TRM Labs: AI Use in Crypto Crime Up 40% in Past Year

The more telling detail is the direction of travel: AI is lowering the operational skill floor for illicit activity just as it does for legitimate work, meaning the barrier to running a crypto scam increasingly resembles a prompt rather than a payload. That shifts the burden onto compliance and analytics teams, whose detection models now compete against the same underlying tooling. Whether this 40% figure reflects genuinely new criminal capacity or better attribution by TRM is the open question worth watching.