SEC · SEC-67 · record R0060
Tracing digital asset transactions and identifying entities controlling wallet addresses
Securities and Exchange Commission · Division of Enforcement (ENF), Division of Examinations (EXAMS)
Overview
- Development stage
- DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- Not reported
- Start date
- 2025-12 (month precision)Source: 12/2025
- Withheld from public reporting
- NoSource: a) No
Mission
- Topic area
- Other
- Operational functions
- No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
The tool helps to identify clusters of related wallet addresses and to predict the sender’s change in transaction data.
Expected benefits
Staff has greater clarity of the wallet addresses controlled by certain entities and the movement of their digital assets.
System outputs
Digital asset holdings and transfers are used to build an understanding of the activities of certain entities during examinations and investigations.
Technology
- AI classification
- Classical / predictive MLSource: Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relatio…
- System name(s)
- Not reported
- Custom-developed code
- No
- Public source code
- Not reported
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Purchased from vendorSource: a) Purchased from a vendor
- Vendor (as reported)
- Chainalysis
- Vendors (standardized)
- Chainalysis
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- No
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- No
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- SEC provides wallet addresses to the model.
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported
AI impact assessmentNo answer reported
Independent reviewNo answer reported
Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported
Operator trainingNo answer reported
Fail-safeNo answer reported
Appeal processNo answer reported
User and public consultationNo answer reported
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported