Category: blockchain analytics / AML compliance and investigations infrastructure / crypto-asset-recovery intelligence
Summary: Global Ledger is best cataloged as compliance-and-investigation intelligence infrastructure rather than as a narrow KYT dashboard. Its official materials tie together real-time wallet and transaction screening, KYB-style entity exposure analysis, sanctions screening, private deployments, investigative workflows for law enforcement and recovery cases, and a large attribution database that the company emphasizes as verifiable and court-usable. One noteworthy detail from this pass is that different first-party pages cite different scale metrics, which suggests the product footprint is broad but the exact current totals should be treated as marketing claims that may vary by page or update cycle.
What it does:
Screens wallets and transactions for AML and sanctions risk using transaction scoring, attributed-address data, and source/use-of-funds analysis
Provides KYB-style entity and counterparty exposure analysis across wallets, transactions, and high-risk counterparties
Supports investigations for compliance teams, financial institutions, VASPs, regulators, and law-enforcement users
Produces tracing and evidence packages intended to support legal or law-enforcement asset-recovery workflows
Offers API and private-server deployment options for organizations that need low-latency or self-hosted-style compliance infrastructure
Maintains a first-party database of attributed addresses and publishes case studies showing the data embedded into partner compliance products
Key claims:
The homepage and KYT pages describe Global Ledger as a Swiss blockchain analytics company founded in 2019 that delivers end-to-end AML compliance and investigation tools with private-server deployment options and roughly 500 ms response times
The homepage, KYT, and asset-recovery pages say the platform supports over 2,000 digital assets, manages over 700 million attributed addresses, performs 250,000 AML checks, and monitors 30 million wallets every day
The About page cites a broader scale figure set — 700k crypto assets and 500K AML checks daily — which is useful evidence that official scale claims currently vary across first-party pages
The KYT and sanctions-screening pages say the platform provides instant risk scores, real-time alerts, source-and-use-of-funds analysis, sanctions exposure checks, and evidence for investigate/block/report decisions
The asset-recovery page says Global Ledger traces stolen or lost cryptocurrency, identifies involved wallets and entities, and prepares court-ready evidence for law enforcement or legal partners, while noting that Global Ledger itself does not directly retrieve funds
The About page says the company positions its data as “100% verifiable” and “court-admissible,” highlights partnerships and policy/training activity with bodies such as UNODC, the Council of Europe, GCFFC, CryptoUK, and GDF, and says the team has grown to 100+ professionals
The Hacken case study says Global Ledger’s API-delivered attribution database powers AML monitoring inside Hacken Extractor and emphasizes manually verified attribution, millions of labelled addresses, and seamless API integration
Whitepaper: No canonical standalone Global Ledger whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official site’s KYT/KYB/sanctions/recovery pages, the About page, and first-party case studies; see ../whitepapers/global-ledger-primary-sources-2026-05-01.md.