Unit21, the AI Risk Infrastructure platform for fraud prevention and AML monitoring, has formed a partnership with blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs to bring on-chain risk data directly into its compliance workflows.
The tie-up embeds TRM's capabilities into Unit21 through two channels. Alerts generated by TRM Transaction Monitoring are routed into Unit21 for investigation and regulatory reporting, while data from TRM Wallet Screening powers Unit21's self-service rules engine. Shared customers gain the ability to identify, examine and respond to crypto threats in the same system they use for fiat activity.
The move addresses a longstanding problem for crypto and FinTech compliance teams, which have typically connected these functions through fragile, home-grown data pipelines. Under the new arrangement, TRM's risk attribution, crypto alerts, entity associations and screening outputs land directly on the records investigators already use, where they can trigger detection rules and inform casework.
Both customer bases stand to benefit. TRM users gain access to an AI-native platform that consolidates detection, case management and regulatory filing, removing the need to stitch separate tools together. Unit21's crypto and FinTech clients receive wallet screening results and risk scores as rule inputs and investigative context without maintaining custom integrations, while crypto alerts join fiat cases in a single unified queue.
Technically, the integration enriches wallet and instrument data through TRM's wallet screening API at the monitoring stage. Fields covering risk level, indicators, categories, transaction volume and entity associations are written natively to investigated records and exposed as conditions within the rules engine. The companies plan to follow post-transaction wallet monitoring with real-time wallet screening on transactions, delivering more high-confidence signals to joint customers.
Unit21 provides AI Risk Infrastructure for fraud prevention and AML monitoring and works with compliance teams at leading crypto firms including Crypto.com, Circle, Nexo, Coinlist and BitGo. TRM Labs operates a blockchain intelligence platform.
The two firms will mark the launch with an event on 30 July at LondonHouse in Chicago.
Unit21 chief product officer Kunal Datta said, 'Financial crime doesn't respect payment rails. The infrastructure built to stop it shouldn't either. 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.'
TRM Labs VP of product Adam Williams said, 'Unit21's customers are on the front lines of keeping the financial system safe. 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.'