For law firms and litigation teams

Find the crypto. Name the exchange. Serve the right subpoena.

For litigators, asset recovery and judgment enforcement counsel. Glacier21 traces crypto to the exchange that can identify the account holder, connects wallets to the people behind them, and delivers findings written for a declaration, not a dashboard. Built by former federal prosecutors and FBI agents.

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Blockchains
35+

Blockchains

Labeled wallets
500M+

Labeled wallets

Off-chain tags
1.9B+

Off-chain tags

Unique sources
580K+

Unique sources

Where crypto shows up

It is already in your matters. It just is not in the documents.

Crypto has no bank statement, no title and often no account in a name you would recognize. These are the matters where it hides most.

FRAUD

Investment and fraud disputes

Your client sent money for tokens that never existed, or to a fund that stopped paying. Follow it to where it was cashed out.
ENFORCEMENT

Judgment enforcement

The judgment debtor says there is nothing left. Find the wallets and exchange accounts that say otherwise.
INSOLVENCY

Bankruptcy and receiverships

Crypto left off the schedules, moved to insiders before the petition, or held offshore by a foreign debtor. Bankruptcy →
FAMILY LAW

Divorce and disclosure

A financial disclosure that says no crypto, from a spouse whose bank statements say otherwise. Hidden crypto assets →
BUSINESS DISPUTES

Partners, founders and employees

Treasury funds moved by a co-founder, a departing employee or a partner who controlled the keys.
INTERNAL

Internal investigations

Payments, vendors or counterparties a client needs checked against sanctions and the people behind them.

How it works

From a lead in the file to a subpoena that lands.

The chain shows where the money went. The off-chain record shows who controls it. Discovery needs both.

  1. 01

    Start from the file

    A wallet, a transaction, an email, a phone number, a handle, a name in any language, or a screenshot the other side produced.

  2. 02

    Trace to the cash-out

    Auto-trace follows the funds across chains and bridges until they reach an exchange, a service or a wallet still holding them.

  3. 03

    Put a person on it

    Off-chain intelligence connects the wallets to the profiles, pages and records of the person who controls them.

  4. 04

    Serve the right target

    A target list for discovery: the exchange, the deposit address, the transactions and the dates, with the sources behind each.

Trace

Know which exchange to subpoena before you draft it.

Auto-trace follows funds hop by hop and books every unit: to exchanges, to services, to wallets still holding it, and to the paths it stopped on and why. Each cash-out names the exchange it reached, so the subpoena goes to the company that can actually identify the account holder. How auto-trace works →

  • The exchange and deposit address for each cash-out
  • FIFO or haircut, saved with the trace
  • A time window around the dates in dispute
glacier21 · investigations
Glacier21 auto-trace report showing where 182,270 ETH from the Ronin Bridge exploiter went
Auto-trace of 182,270 ETH: 65% went into mixers, bridges and services within three hops.

Identify

Connect the wallet to the person, with the page that proves it.

The person behind a wallet is almost never on the chain. Glacier21 searches the general web, usernames, names in any language and, where granted, breach records, and shows the source for every link it makes. How off-chain intelligence works →

  • Start from an email, phone, handle or name
  • Web pages with first and last seen dates
  • Sanctions and law-enforcement flags up front
glacier21 · investigations
Glacier21 web footprint for a WebMoney payment ID, showing ten related wallets published on a payment site
Web footprint of a payment ID: 16 web pages, 10 wallets, 2017 to 2023. Identifiers redacted for this page.

Documents that do not add up

When the other side produces crypto evidence, we test it.

The most common answers in a crypto dispute are a screenshot, a spreadsheet and a story. Each one can be checked against the chain.

SCREENSHOTS

A balance screenshot instead of a statement

Screens get cropped, scrolled and staged. We rebuild the interface it came from and check what is missing, from the URL to the address history.
EXPORTS

Exchange reports that do not reconcile

A transaction export that ends in a negative balance is missing rows. We rebuild the account from its own records and compare it to the chain.
HACKS

A claim that it was hacked or lost

A real theft leaves a trail to someone else. Funds that fan out and land in the same exchange accounts, minutes apart, tell a different story.
SELF-CUSTODY

It is in a wallet nobody can reach

Every wallet's history is public once its addresses are known. Exchange withdrawals, linked profiles and reused handles usually give them away.

What counsel gets

Discovery targets, not a dashboard.

Every engagement ends with something you can file, serve or put in front of a witness.

  • The exchanges to subpoena, by name, with the deposit addresses that reached them
  • Transaction hashes, amounts and timestamps for each step of the trail
  • The wallets and accounts tied to the person, and the records that tie them
  • A timeline built around the dates in dispute
  • Plain-English declarations, expert reports and testimony from our team

Built for the record

Findings that hold up when they are challenged.

Opposing counsel will ask how you know. The answer is in the case file.

SOURCED

Every conclusion cited

Each attribution names the source that produced it, so opposing counsel can check it and a judge can follow it.
INTEGRITY

Hashed snapshots

Pinned evidence is saved as a SHA-256 snapshot of what was seen and when, even if the source changes later.
REPRODUCIBLE

Traces the other side can rerun

Each auto-trace saves its settings and a result hash. Same inputs, same answer, in any expert's hands.
PLAIN ENGLISH

Written for the record

Findings are written to attach to declarations, motions and expert reports, without a technical background required.

White glove

Former federal prosecutors and FBI agents, on your matter.

Our in-house team has run Rule 2004 examinations, Chapter 15 liquidations and cross-border tracing, and referred fraud to federal authorities on behalf of victims. When a matter needs more hands, they take it on: tracing, attribution, expert reports and testimony.

Meet the team →

FAQ

Questions law firms ask us.

Can Glacier21 tell us which crypto exchange to subpoena?

Yes. Auto-trace follows the funds until they reach a wallet or deposit address that Glacier21 labels as belonging to an exchange, and names the exchange. That is the company that holds the account holder's identity records.

What do we need to start?

Whatever is in the file. A wallet address or transaction is ideal, but an email, a phone number, a username or a name, in any language, is often enough to find the wallets connected to a person.

Will the findings hold up if they are challenged?

Every attribution is sourced, pinned evidence is saved as a hashed snapshot, and traces are reproducible from their saved settings. Our team prepares expert reports and can testify to the work.

Can our client and co-counsel see the case?

Yes. Viewers and case guests are free. They read the case and comment without editing, and guests only see the cases they are invited to.

Can you trace funds that moved offshore?

Crypto crosses borders without a bank, so the trace does too. We show which foreign exchange or service the funds reached, so counsel can decide whether the fight is worth having and where to have it.

How is an engagement scoped?

Most firms start with a preliminary assessment: what the chain and the off-chain record show, and whether a full engagement is warranted. Firms with in-house investigators can also take seats on the platform directly.

If you think the crypto is there, it probably is.

Start with a preliminary assessment of what the chain and the off-chain record show, and whether a full engagement is warranted.

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