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Caudena

Caudena sells blockchain analytics for crypto investigations and compliance to law enforcement agencies, financial institutions and crypto exchanges. Prism, its investigation tool, traces funds across chains, including privacy coins such as Monero and Dash. It demixes major mixers, detects cross chain swaps, fingerprints wallets through changes in ownership and decodes smart contract interactions, drawing on an off chain dataset of more than 400 terabytes spanning over a decade of cybercrime. Since June 2026 it also covers swaps through Wagyu Bridge, including routes involving Monero.

The compliance workspace, built on large language models, adds continuous transaction monitoring, a no code rules engine, investigation graphs, and AI drafted incident summaries and suspicious activity report narratives. A decentralized finance offering adds cross chain visibility, configurable risk alerts and counterparty due diligence.

AI runs through both products. Caudena added AI graph summaries in 2023 and suspicious activity report narrative drafts in January 2024, then moved to agents that run its forensic tools themselves. Agents write case summaries in place of manual report writing, and a Model Context Protocol server, Prism MCP, lets an investigator's own agent, such as Claude, run traces and risk checks on Caudena's data and return a narrative tied to specific transaction hashes. The agents run on BeamWeaver, an agent framework Caudena built and released as open source in June 2026.

Caudena Academy runs an advanced course for public sector investigators on mixers, privacy coins and cross chain tracing, with access reviewed before enrollment. The company has offices in New York, in Agios Athanasios, Cyprus, and in Nice, France.

Last VerifiedOctober 13, 2026
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aml-kyc-financial-crime, crypto-and-digital-assets
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 2 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
CC on AI CentralityArtificial intelligence is present but peripheral: a feature layer on a product whose value stands without it.
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Tracing, demixing, fingerprinting, labeling and the rules engine carry the product, and they would still run with the language models removed. The AI drafts on top of them: case summaries, investigation graphs and suspicious activity report narratives, plus Prism MCP, which lets an outside agent drive Caudena's forensic tools and write up what it finds.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
CC on Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy is claimed and oversight is asserted without a mechanism, or full automation is presented as the entire disclosure. Human in the loop appears as a phrase rather than a described control.
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AI here drafts rather than decides. Summaries, investigation graphs and suspicious activity report narratives are generated for an officer or investigator to use, and Prism MCP lets an investigator's agent run risk checks, exposure analysis and tracing on its own before returning a narrative.

Caudena says investigators remain responsible for reviewing the agents' conclusions, but what a person must approve before a narrative is filed, and any confidence measure on an agent's conclusion, are not described. Monitoring rules are set by the compliance team without code.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
Vendor Published

An October 2026 benchmark of Caudena's investigation agents publishes its method and results. Eleven model configurations made 69 scored attempts between September 25 and 28 on reference cases covering Bitcoin to Ethereum tracing, onward Bitcoin payments and TRON network analysis. Each attempt was scored on graph recall, graph precision and whether the report carried the required findings, within 25 minutes and $3 of model usage.

Gemini 3.8 Flash at medium effort scored 100 in all 15 of its tests, averaging 3 minutes 40 seconds at an estimated $0.32 an investigation. Caudena states the limits itself: a top score means the automated checks passed, not that every claim in a report was supported, and nothing compares the agents with human investigators. Agent briefings cite the transaction hashes behind them. Accuracy figures for demixing, fingerprinting and risk scoring are not given, and the testing is not tied to a supervisory model risk framework such as SR 11-7.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
CC on Operational and Outcome EvidenceUnnamed case studies, customer logos, or claims without numbers. Prestige is not measurement: the caliber of the client list describes the buyer rather than the product, and coverage statistics are not adoption statistics.
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Customers go unnamed. Caudena's own estimates for the compliance workspace are that a team needs four officers instead of five, saving two to three hours a day per officer and lifting return on investment by 35 percent, with no exchange or bank attached to the figures. It says it works with leading law enforcement agencies, and its investigation data is pitched as admissible in court.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Whether client case data, or the questions agents send through Prism MCP, are kept apart between customers or used to improve Caudena's models is not stated. Prism MCP connects Caudena's tools to the language model an investigator chooses, such as Claude, so that model sees whatever forensic output the investigator requests.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
CC on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy that covers the website rather than the service, or silence on a product that touches limited consumer data.
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A data processing agreement, subprocessor list or terms for the case data and client information compliance teams load are not published. Caudena's privacy policy covers its services in general terms: personal data is used for service delivery, legal obligations and consented marketing, shared with service providers for IT, data storage, analytics and marketing, and kept only as long as needed, with transfers outside the European Economic Area acknowledged.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
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Caudena publishes no security attestation, certification or trust center, and its privacy policy describes security measures only in general terms. Access runs through its hosted applications, with case management built for several users working on the same investigation.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
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Caudena names no regulator, license or supervisory recognition of its own. Its compliance tools are framed around anti money laundering and suspicious activity reporting duties for financial institutions and for regulated virtual and crypto asset service providers, and its investigation data is presented as admissible in court.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
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Risk labels on addresses and entities, and the narratives drafted about them, come with no stated rate at which a label is wrong and nothing on how labeling errors fall across chains or regions. The October 2026 agent benchmark checks whether reports carry the required findings on reference cases, which is a quality test rather than a fairness one. Narratives produced through Prism MCP cite the transaction hashes behind each conclusion, so a reader can check what supports it.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

Caudena publishes no guarantee or accuracy commitment for its platform, and its terms of service disclaim warranties on its materials and limit liability. What a user can check is the evidence: briefings cite the transaction hashes behind them, so a conclusion can be traced back to the chain and challenged.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
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The model behind Caudena's summaries, narratives and agents in production is not named, nor is a hosting provider. Its agents run on BeamWeaver, its own open source agent framework, which works with models from six providers, OpenAI and Anthropic among them, and its October 2026 benchmark compared 11 configurations, including Gemini 3.8 Flash and Claude Opus 5.5, without saying which one customers get.

Its intelligence rests on its own off chain open source intelligence and a proprietary dataset of more than 400 terabytes, and Prism MCP hands analysis to whichever language model an investigator connects, such as Claude.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
CC on Core Systems and Integration DepthIntegration claimed through standards or connectors with no system named and nothing to verify.
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Integration with a bank's transaction monitoring, case management or core systems is not named. Delivery runs through Caudena's own applications, Prism for investigations and a compliance workspace with case management and real time multi user collaboration, and through Prism MCP, which connects its tools to any agent that supports the Model Context Protocol with a single address.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
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The hosting provider, region and residency of client data are not stated, and no private or on premises option is described. Caudena runs as hosted applications, Prism and its compliance workspace, with a protocol endpoint that outside agents can call.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
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Caudena publishes no price, tier or basis of charge, and demos, training and courses are arranged through a request form. A calculator on the compliance product estimates savings from staffing rather than the cost of the software.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
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Each buyer group Caudena names has its own product and page. Law enforcement gets Prism and an investigations course, financial institutions get transaction monitoring and suspicious activity reporting, and centralized exchanges and other virtual and crypto asset service providers get case management and entity risk profiling. Decentralized finance has a page of its own too, with cross chain visibility, risk alerts set to a team's own compliance thresholds and counterparty due diligence. Coverage spans the major chains and privacy coins including Monero and Dash, though no geographic footprint or institution count is stated.

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Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Caudena, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.

Oct 12, 2026Performance evidence

Caudena published a benchmark of 11 model configurations running agent workflows on its Prism investigation tools, scored on graph recall, graph precision and required report findings across Bitcoin, Ethereum and TRON tracing cases, with a 25 minute and $3 cap on each attempt. Across 69 scored attempts run 25 to 28 September, Gemini 3.8 Flash at medium reasoning effort scored 100 at an average of 3 minutes 40 seconds and about $0.32 per investigation, tied on quality with Claude Opus 5.5 and GLM-5.3.

Bears on: Operational and Outcome EvidenceSource
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