About ChainTracing — Blockchain Forensics for Scam Victims
Affordable, investigative on-chain tracing for people who can't spend $500+ on a forensic firm.
Talha Mahmood
Founder, ChainTracing
CEO of Symbiote Technologies (Lahore, Pakistan) and builder of autonomous AI systems on Paperclip. Shipped the Paperclip OpenRouter adapter — unlocking access to 300+ models for the platform.
Built ChainTracing after watching too many crypto victims hit dead ends trying to trace stolen funds. Most can't afford $500+ forensic firms, and free block explorers don't connect the dots. ChainTracing turns the same on-chain data professional investigators use into a $14.99 evidence report any victim can hand to police or an exchange compliance team.
Why we built ChainTracing
Last year I got hit by an impersonation scam. Someone I thought I was talking to wasn't who they said they were, and a few thousand dollars in crypto moved to a wallet I didn't control before I realized what had happened.
I did what everyone does next: I opened a block explorer, stared at a string of transactions I didn't understand, and started Googling.
Here's what I found. Professional forensics firms quote $500 to $5,000. For someone who just lost money, that's a second gut-punch. Free block explorers show you everything and explain nothing. Community subreddits work only if a stranger cares enough to help.
There's a gap in the middle, and that gap is where most victims actually live. People who've lost enough money to care, but not enough to justify a $2,000 forensics bill.
That's who ChainTracing is for. A $14.99 Quick Scan and a $29.99 Deep Trace priced for the person who just lost two months of rent and wants to know if their funds hit an exchange before they file a police report that might actually get taken seriously.
Built from Pakistan, solo, in public. No VC money, no promises of recovery, just the forensic evidence victims need to take the next step.
Talha Mahmood, Founder
Why ChainTracing Exists
Professional blockchain forensics firms charge $500 to $5,000 per investigation — out of reach for most scam victims. Meanwhile, public block explorers show raw transactions but don't identify exchanges, mixers, or sanctioned wallets. ChainTracing closes the gap: the same forensic techniques investigators use at a fraction of the price, delivered as a PDF you can hand to police, your lawyer, or the exchange's abuse team.
How We Trace Stolen Crypto
ChainTracing runs a breadth-first search across Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Solana, Tron, and Bitcoin. Every hop is cross-checked against known CEX hot wallets (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit), mixer contracts (Tornado Cash, Blender), cross-chain bridges, OFAC sanctions lists, and a database of 4,700+ reported scam wallets. When funds reach an exchange, we flag the deposit so you know which CEX to subpoena — and we flag the point at which on-chain tracing becomes unreliable, so you don't chase ghosts.
Who ChainTracing Is For
Crypto Scam Victims
Pig butchering, romance scams, phishing, rug pulls, fake exchanges. If you sent crypto to a wallet you shouldn't have, we show you where it went.
Private Investigators & Lawyers
On-chain evidence for civil cases, divorce asset discovery, fraud investigations, and compliance work.
Law Enforcement
Structured investigative PDFs with block explorer citations, exchange attribution, and OFAC screening — built for subpoena targeting.
What ChainTracing Is Not
ChainTracing is not a recovery service. We do not contact exchanges or law enforcement on your behalf, we do not negotiate with scammers, and we do not guarantee fund recovery. What we provide is forensic-grade on-chain evidence — the raw material that makes recovery possible when handed to the right authority. Anyone claiming to recover stolen crypto for an upfront fee is almost certainly running a follow-up scam.
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