In 2022, it set a record for illegal chain franchise transactions, and left idle the criminal investigation of bankruptcy login password companies such as FTX, Celsius, Three Arrow Capital, Terraform Labs, etc. According to a report by Chainanalysis on Jan. 12, the total amount of cryptocurrency obtained based on illegal detailed addresses last year reached 20.1 billion US dollars.

This data is not final, considering that illegal trading volume indicators will improve over time, as investment analysts find the latest addresses related to criminal behavior. In addition, it does not include other data such as drug trafficking that encrypt the profits of original ecological crimes and the funds in the accounts of bankrupt companies above, which are now being investigated by organizations in every jurisdiction around the world.

At this point, the total of $20.1 billion is slightly higher than the consensus index of $18 billion in 2021. However, this is still a record-breaking figure, far exceeding the price of $8 billion in 2020.

Such data can be described by the objective fact that 44 per cent of illegal acts in 2022 involve the physical line of sanctions: last year, the offices of property manipulation companies of other foreign countries (OFAC) opened some of the "most groundbreaking and unenforceable" data encryption sanctions. The volume of transactions related to sanctions has increased so rapidly that they cannot be included in the data chart at all because of the scope problem. Chainanalysis may be at the 10% mark.

The report cited an example of logging into the password trading center Garantex. Russian institutions re-operated when they were listed in the OFAC sanctions register in April and managed most of the transactions related to sanctions in 2022.

As Eric Jardine, head of scientific research on online fraud at Chainanalysis, explained to Cointelegraph, if the wallet is part of a known illegal object, such as the channel through which the sales market of dark web sites is subject to sanctions, the report regards it as "illegal". If individuals and unmanaged wallets have funds stolen in cyber attacks, they may be marked as illegal. But:

If the person / unmanaged wallet is remitted to Tornado Cash when specified, the wallet is not marked as illegal, but the transaction volume will be called 'illegal' because it involves funds received by the illegal entity line.

In early January, the Office of the National Cyber Fraud established a cryptocurrency unit to investigate French cyber incidents related to the use of cryptocurrencies. The move is aimed at strengthening the supervision of encrypted assets in the host country at a time when the government is calling for the elimination of "black money" in the country.