Darknet intelligence, specialized in crypto

Adversarial collection · Clean signal · Often before first funding — Surikata-X Feed

We're a darknet intelligence company, specialized in the crypto use case. Using adversarial techniques that induce threat actors to expose their own financial infrastructure, we collect from inside the darknet and attribute the cryptocurrency addresses behind the operators — across the entire illicit economy. Most feeds hand you addresses scraped off the surface; we attribute the address itself, to the operator, accurate at the source — often before it receives its first transaction. Every address is then cleaned against a 35K+ entity, 450M+ address attribution graph, so what you license is high-signal intelligence, not raw scrape.

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One feed. The whole illicit economy.

Surikata-X spans roughly 30 entity types — each address typed and jurisdiction-tagged. Multi-chain across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, TRON, and Solana.

Ransomware Fentanyl Opioids Weapons Military-Grade Weapons Carding Money Laundering Mixers OTC Desks P2P Services Darknet Markets Cybercrime Malware Vendor DDoS Extortion Sextortion Murder for Hire Precursor Chemicals Bio Weapons Nuclear Explosives Ghost Guns Exotic Animal Trafficking Mercenary Mining Botnet Pirated Media Terrorism CSAM Human Trafficking
450M+
labeled BTC addresses
35K+
attributed entities
~30
entity types
60+
jurisdictions
7
chains covered

We start inside the darknet, not on the chain.

Chain analytics starts with an address and works backward — clustering and co-spend to guess who might be behind it. We start at the source: inside the operator's own darknet site, and work outward to the crypto that runs it. The address is what we pull out, not where we start.

01

Scan the darknet

We continuously crawl protected .onion marketplaces, forums, and hubs to surface active operator sites as they come online.

02

Classify every site

AI content classification types each site by what it actually is — surfacing the crypto-adjacent, financially-active operators and dropping the non-actionable rest.

03

Get inside

Proprietary adversarial collection induces the operator to expose their own payment funnel — the step chain analytics never reaches.

04

Extract the addresses

We pull the crypto straight out of the operator's own funnel across BTC, ETH, Monero, TRON, Solana, LTC, and DOGE — taken from the source, not lifted off a page.

05

Attribute & cluster

Each address is tied to its operator and clustered by shared payment rails — mapping the network behind the money, not a single wallet.

Accuracy is a property of how the data is collected — not a scoring model applied after the fact.

Everyone scrapes the darknet. We keep it clean.

Adversarial collection makes attribution accurate at the source; crypto-native cleaning makes sure no noise reaches you downstream. We drop the donation addresses, the "key for sale" scams, and the wallets already labeled in our 450M-address graph — so what reaches you is the real money flow.

Raw darknet scrape14 addresses
3F9k…x27bCSAMkeep
bc1q…a3f2Donation addressdonation
bc1q…7f0aRansomwarekeep
1A1z…dc44Public treasury walletknown entity
bc1q…q9m2"Key for sale" scamscam
0x9c…4e11Fentanylkeep
bc1q…k3d8Decorative addressdecorative
4A8m…p2r5Human traffickingkeep
3P2v…88haExchange hot walletknown entity
bc1q…v6n1Weaponskeep
bc1q…m0k7Exit-scam walletscam
Tk9x…w3s0Carding Shopkeep
DarkScout feed6 high-signal
3F9k…x27bCSAMpre-funding
bc1q…7f0aRansomwareverified
0x9c…4e11Fentanylverified
4A8m…p2r5Human traffickingverified
bc1q…v6n1Weaponsverified
Tk9x…w3s0Carding Shopverified
 — clustered by shared payment rails —

Illustrative sample. We drop donation and decorative addresses, "key for sale" scams and exit-scams, and addresses that are already-known entities (public treasuries, exchange wallets). What remains is high-signal — often flagged before first funding.

Proven on the hardest attribution there is.

CSAM and human trafficking networks are the most adversarial, most evasive corner of the darknet — where inference-based attribution fails most often. If a method holds up there, it holds up everywhere. The same adversarial collection and clean-signal pipeline runs across every entity type in the feed.

73.3%
pre-funding detection rate
5.4 days
average lead time before funding
Evidence-backed
content-filtered source + address

Built for teams that need attribution, not alerts.

DarkScout is the data supplier, upstream of your stack — not the screening layer. We ship the data; you build the workflow.

Analytics & Threat-Intel Platforms

Supplement your attribution database with clean, darknet-sourced intelligence across every entity type — addresses detected before they appear in traditional datasets

Financial Institutions

Screen and attribute addresses pre-transaction to avoid exposure to the full illicit economy, not just one category

Law Enforcement & Investigators

Operator-level attribution with evidence, and network mapping across addresses and entities

Compliance & Risk Teams

Avoid risk entirely with attribution that lands hours to days before first funding

How it works

Accurate at the source, clean by construction, multi-chain, and evidence-backed. Documented and auditable.

Adversarial Collection

Proprietary techniques induce threat actors to expose their own financial infrastructure — accurate at the source, with full audit trails and content-filtered evidence

Clean Signal

Crypto-native cleaning against a 35K+ entity, 450M+ address graph strips donations, scams, and known wallets — high-signal, low false positive

Multi-Chain Coverage

BTC, ETH, Monero, TRON, Solana, Litecoin, Dogecoin — most darknet intel tools are Bitcoin-only

Ethical Evidence

Every address is backed by content-filtered screenshots capturing source and address only — suitable for compliance audits and legal proceedings

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Evaluate the feed on your own data.

Request a data license and sample datasets to test attribution accuracy and clean-signal filtering across the entity types that matter to you.

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