For trustees, examiners, receivers & collection counsel
Your debtor is sitting on cryptocurrency. Do you know how to find and recover it?
Most estates never find out. Cryptocurrency has become the most reliable way to move wealth out of reach of a collection: no bank, no branch, no paper trail, and nothing a standard asset search will ever return. Debtors know it. We find it anyway.
- Labeled wallets
- 373M+
- Off-chain tags
- 1.1B+
- Sources
- 200+
- Blockchains
- 35+
Labeled wallets
Off-chain tags
Sources
Blockchains
Domestic collection
More than 30% of U.S. adults hold virtual assets, in a market valued at over $2.5 trillion. Stop relying on outdated bank searches and start recovering this pool of hidden digital wealth.
Global collection
Debtors are hiding liquidity offshore in a multi-trillion-dollar ecosystem. Integrate digital asset tracing to track funds across borders and maximize international recoveries.
U.S. ownership: Security.org, 2026 Cryptocurrency Adoption and Sentiment Report (30% of U.S. adults / 70.4M people). Global ownership: Crypto.com Market Sizing Report, 741M owners in 2025. Market value fluctuates with price.
Running a Chapter 15 trace as a foreign representative, trustee, or liquidator?
Most cross-border teams never think to look for cryptocurrency, and they leave substantial recoverable value on the table. Glacier21 finds the digital assets your trace is missing.
How it works
A single email address may be enough to uncover millions in hidden holdings.
Glacier21 tells you, in plain English, whether a person or company controls cryptocurrency and who else is holding it for them. Give us a name, a company, an email address, a phone number, an online username, or just a hunch. We come back with names, holdings, and the paper you need to act. Our team is made up of former federal prosecutors and FBI agents who spent their careers finding hidden money.
An email address
What you already have in the file.
Analyzed by Glacier21
Matched across millions of datapoints.
A wallet holding millions in Bitcoin
Identified, attributed, recoverable.
Why cryptocurrency defeats a normal asset search
The asset is real. Your usual searches just cannot see it.
Nothing to subpoena
Cryptocurrency can be held in a digital wallet, which works like a numbered safe-deposit box that no bank operates. There is no institution to serve, no signature card, and no monthly statement to demand.
Invisible to standard searches
UCC filings, real property records, DMV, credit headers, and judgment searches return nothing. The asset simply does not appear in the places you are trained to look.
It relies on the debtor telling you
Schedules and Statements of Financial Affairs are self-reported. A debtor who converted cash to cryptocurrency before filing has every incentive to leave the line blank, and little fear of being caught.
It moves in minutes, not days
Value can be sent anywhere in the world, at any hour, without a wire, a bank, or a border. By the time an estate suspects something, the trail is usually cold, unless someone knows how to follow it.
The collection problems we were built for
You have seen these. We turn each one into a name and a number.
“The schedules look too clean.”
Before the 341 meeting, we tell you whether the debtor has cryptocurrency activity the schedules do not mention, so you walk in already knowing the answer.
“Something moved before the filing.”
We identify transfers made to insiders, relatives, and newly formed companies inside your lookback window, and put a name on the person who received them.
“I don't know who to subpoena.”
We name the specific exchanges and companies holding the debtor's accounts, so your Rule 2004 exams and document demands land on the right target the first time.
“The money left the country.”
Value crosses borders instantly and without a bank, which is exactly why cross-border cases stall. We show where it went and which foreign entity and individual controls it, so you know whether the fight is worth having.
“The case is confirmed and I still have a judgment to collect.”
We keep watching identified accounts and alert you when they come back to life, turning a stale judgment into a collectible one.
Stop debtors from concealing crypto in bankruptcy
Don't let the estate miss out on millions in assets.
Hunt down concealed crypto
Debtors routinely omit digital assets from their bankruptcy schedules. Expose the omission by tracing the money trail through bank and payment-processor records to pinpoint and claim hidden cryptocurrency wealth.
Exploit vulnerable exemptions
Debtors have almost no legal shield here. Most states have no cryptocurrency-specific exemption, leaving these holdings exposed and available as targets for turnover and liquidation.
Force rapid liquidation
Price swings threaten your recovery. Lock in petition-date valuations and press for swift liquidation before a market drop wipes out the value owed to creditors.
Seize keys to stop asset flight
Cryptocurrency moves faster than the courts, and a debtor can drain an account in minutes. Neutralize the risk by moving early to control wallets and private keys, and by subpoenaing exchanges to freeze funds.
Built for the record, not just the hunch
Findings that hold up when they are challenged.
Every conclusion is sourced
We name the person behind an account and show the records that prove it. No unexplained software labels, no black box you cannot defend.
Written for filing
Reports, maps, and timelines are structured to attach to Rule 2004 motions, turnover and contempt pleadings, and expert declarations.
Explained in plain English
Findings are written so a trustee, a judge, and opposing counsel can follow the money without a technical background, and so the reasoning holds up when it is challenged.
Precedent in action: piercing the crypto veil
Courts already treat tracing evidence as reliable.
In re Nathan Fuller
Bankr. S.D. Tex., judgment entered 2025
Complete denial of discharge
A debtor sought to discharge more than $12.5 million in debt while concealing assets, including cryptocurrency proceeds spent on real estate and luxury goods. The court denied the discharge outright. Concealing digital wealth voids the bankruptcy shield and leaves the debtor personally liable, with creditors free to keep collecting.
United States v. Sterlingov (Bitcoin Fog)
D.D.C., 2024
Defeating crypto mixers
Investigators traced roughly $400 million through a darknet mixing service, and the court admitted that tracing analysis as reliable expert evidence over a Daubert challenge. The case is the leading authority that sophisticated obfuscation does not permanently hide assets, and that tracing testimony will stand up in court.
Confidential Unhosted Wallet Bankruptcy Matter
Case details confidential
Piercing cold storage
Tracing experts mapped misappropriated estate funds across 40 self-custody wallets held outside any exchange. This dismantles the myth that off-exchange cryptocurrency is untraceable, and shows courts that self-custodied wealth can be identified, targeted, and recovered for the estate.
Fujimori & Fujimori (No 2)
2025 FedCFamC1F 438, Australia
Emergency asset seizures
A court granted urgent ex parte search and freezing orders, the Anton Piller remedy, to secure a husband's concealed cryptocurrency before he could move it. Although the case arises in Australian family law rather than U.S. bankruptcy, it is a working model for the emergency relief a trustee can seek: seize the hardware holding the wallet before the debtor dissipates the funds.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Trustee Program press release, Sept. 10, 2025; U.S. Department of Justice, Nov. 8, 2024, and United States v. Sterlingov, D.D.C.; Fujimori & Fujimori (No 2) 2025 FedCFamC1F 438.
Who you are hiring
Federal prosecutors and FBI agents who spent careers finding hidden money.
George “Ren” McEachern
CEO & Co-Founder
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent with 20+ years of experience leading complex global financial crime investigations, including FCPA, money laundering, asset forfeiture, wire fraud, and antitrust matters. A recognized authority on cryptocurrency and financial crime, he regularly appears as an expert on major news networks and industry podcasts including Thinking Crypto, Unchained, and OpenCorporates.
Robert Appleton
CCO & Co-Founder
Former federal prosecutor with 14+ years at the DOJ, specializing in cryptocurrency asset recovery and bankruptcy litigation. He has extensively handled Chapter 15 foreign liquidations, Rule 2004 proceedings, and cross-border tracing, represented crypto fraud victims in bankruptcy adversary proceedings, and successfully referred complex bankruptcy fraud cases to federal authorities on behalf of creditor victims.
Michael Borowski
Product Lead & Co-Founder
Over a decade of experience developing blockchain-based systems, data pipelines, and AI-driven tooling. He has built and deployed products across NFT infrastructure, web3 applications, and generative AI frameworks, including installations featured at Art Basel Miami, and co-founded a web3 platform that uses machine learning to aggregate and index large-scale datasets.
Named one of DC's 20 Most Promising Young Companies. RealLIST Startups 2026.
If you think it might be there, it probably is.
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