Global Ledger
Global Ledger is a Swiss blockchain analytics company trading as GLO Services AG from Zug, founded in 2019 by Lex Fisun and Dimitrii Bilokon and now led by chief executive Hanna Khrystianovych, with Fisun as an advisor. Three products carry the line: Know Your Transaction for real time risk scoring, monitoring and alerting with AI prioritization, Know Your Business for entity level exposure reporting against a database of more than 92,000 crypto entities, and sanctions screening.
Around them sit an investigations toolset with visual tracing, case management, automated tracing of tainted assets and the GL Lens Chrome extension that surfaces wallet risk on any web page, plus asset recovery, counterparty risk work and a compliance officer certification program built against Financial Action Task Force requirements. The company states more than 700 million attributed addresses and an average response time of 500 milliseconds. Its GL Score runs 0 to 100 from the risk of the sources behind an address, and the calculation approach is published.
Four tiers are set out against request quotas and seat counts, with add ons including the KYT Lab rule testing sandbox, on premises installation and a support agreement carrying a 99.8 percent availability guarantee, and financial institutions can start a 14 day free trial, though no rate appears against any tier. The hosted platform runs with Hetzner in Germany and Finland and OVH in France and Poland under a subprocessor list that also names OpenAI for AI assisted analysis, off by default. IBM integrates its data into Digital Asset Haven, and Dfns added Global Ledger screening to its wallet policy engine in February 2026.
The company runs law enforcement training with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and belongs to the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, CryptoUK and Global Digital Finance. Some of its own figures disagree, including daily check counts of 250,000 and 500,000 and the number of supported chains.
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Features carry AI labels, from AI powered alerts to a Risk Report marked plus AI, but the GL Score is explained as an algorithm propagating the risk of sources contributing to an address, not a learned model. The asset is an attribution database of more than 700 million addresses and its investigations team, and the propagation logic runs without any model.
Custom Scoring Profiles let a customer replace default scores for any type or tag, and an audit log records user actions and configuration changes under role based permissions. Alerts go to a compliance team, but no default threshold or escalation path appears. Risk scores and labels are framed as support for the customer's own judgment, and using them for regulated automated decisions requires terms agreed in advance.
Validation reports and accuracy figures are absent, and the company gives its daily check volume as both 250,000 and 500,000. KYT Lab tests new rules on historical transactions to project alert volume before go live, and the GL Score method is published.
Konstantin Anissimov of Currency.com and Bryan Noller of ARGOS Identity are quoted, and analysts tracked $16.54 billion through the sanctioned Grinex exchange. Its claim of up to 80 percent less compliance time from AI prioritization attaches to no customer.
Customer data is walled off from model work in writing: data processed for a customer, and anything derived from its queries, monitored selections, rules, cases or outputs, is excluded both from AI model training and from Global Ledger's own intelligence datasets. The OpenAI powered analysis is disabled by default and sends no personal data by design.
A privacy policy revised on 12 October 2026 now reaches the analytics service itself. Global Ledger acts as processor for the screening, monitoring and investigation inputs customers submit, explains how it attributes blockchain addresses to entities and risk categories, and links a subprocessor list giving each provider's function, processing countries and transfer safeguard. Retention is set by purpose rather than by period, with data deleted or anonymized once it is no longer needed.
Certifications, attestations and a trust center are absent for the platform, so its control framework rests on the company's word. The privacy policy's security section describes servers with restricted access, encryption in transit over Transport Layer Security and procedures for handling data breaches.
Public sector counterparts are named: a 2022 course with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, a 2024 Council of Europe partnership and training for Panamanian judges. Court admissible evidence is claimed without naming any court, tribunal or ruling.
Error rates, false positive rates and coverage statements go unpublished, and nothing says how many hops from a flagged source still taint an address or what happens to a recipient who could not have known. Sanctioned entities trigger a high score even on minimal exposure, the one weighting rule stated in plain terms.
The GL Score carries no guarantee or indemnity, and a 99.8 percent availability guarantee comes only with the paid support agreement. A wrongly labeled person now has a route, though: anyone who believes a decision about them rested on Global Ledger's results can request human review of the underlying attribution, give their view and contest it, alongside rectification and erasure rights.
A public subprocessor list names every provider that handles customer personal data, with function, processing countries and transfer safeguard: Hetzner and OVH for hosting, Amazon Web Services for report storage, Google Cloud for email and OpenAI for AI assisted analysis when a customer enables it. Attribution draws on public blockchain ledgers, official sanctions lists, public reports, law enforcement publications, its own investigations and data bought from unnamed vendors.
Core banking and case management connectors go unnamed, while public documentation covers its application programming interface (API). IBM documents the integration for Digital Asset Haven, and since February 2026 the Dfns wallet policy engine queries a client's Global Ledger environment before a transfer is broadcast.
On premises installation is a published add on that keeps blockchain and operational data on the customer's infrastructure with full database access, alongside private, cloud and hybrid setups. The hosted platform runs with Hetzner in Germany and Finland and OVH in France and Poland, with generated reports stored on Amazon Web Services in Ireland and staff access from Switzerland and Spain.
Four tiers state the unit of sale, from KYT Essentials at 10,000 requests and one user to Unlimited with twenty users, with add ons including on premises installation, and financial institutions can start a 14 day free trial. Every tier routes to a pricing request, and third party listings quoting a start above $10,000 are not sourced to the vendor.
Exchanges, financial institutions and law enforcement get their own material, with named staff in eleven countries. Chain coverage reads as all blockchains in the tier table but thirteen in its frequently asked questions, with an offer to add a missing chain within two weeks.
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Pricing
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Not published. Four tiers are named with request quotas and seat counts, each routing to a request for pricing, and financial institutions can start a 14 day free trial. Third party listings estimate a start above $10,000 calculated per request, not sourced to the vendor.
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Subscription against a request quota with a bundled seat count, published as four tiers. KYT Essentials covers 10,000 requests and one user for monitoring and risk reporting without tracing. KYT Advanced covers 50,000 requests and three users and adds visual tracing, case management, auto tracing and the GL Lens Chrome extension. All in one covers 250,000 requests and five users and adds the entity database, entity report and DeFi report. Unlimited covers unlimited requests and twenty users. Add ons extend any tier: KYT Lab for testing rules on historical transactions without consuming requests, an investigations module, a KYB module reaching more than 92,000 crypto entities, additional users, a 24 hour support agreement carrying a 99.8 percent availability guarantee, and on premise installation, which removes the request limit by moving the platform onto customer infrastructure. | Not tiered on any published pricing. A privacy policy and a subprocessor list, both revised 12 October 2026, reach the analytics service: Global Ledger acts as processor for the inputs customers submit under its Master Subscription Agreement, the subprocessor list names each provider with its function, processing countries and transfer safeguard, and data subject requests get a response within 30 days. | No setup, onboarding, migration or configuration fee is published. On premise installation is sold as a named add on without a figure. The compliance officer certification and training program is a separate paid service line, and asset recovery, counterparty risk and investigative services are sold as engagements with no published rate. | Vendor Published |
Global Ledger publishes its tier structure but no rate as of 13 October 2026, and financial institutions can start a 14 day free trial. A buyer can see the unit of sale, the request quota and seat count at each tier, the module list per tier and the add ons before any contact, and so can size the purchase and model how cost scales with volume.
Third party listings at SoftwareSuggest and Slashdot, dated December 2024, quote a start above $10,000 calculated per request and training from $5,000 for a group of ten; neither is sourced to the vendor.