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$ cia init ✓ workspace ready · Chain Insights Graph connected $ cia mcp aml-address-risk \ --network bittensor --address 5C5z7R…HHZ8 ● risk: critical · confidence high ● graph degree: 6 in, 1 out ● label: cash-out deposit (hop 8, incident 2024-05-12) $ cia mcp aml-trace-deposit-sources \ --deposit-addresses 5C5z7R…HHZ8 --max-hops 5 ● reverse paths: 31 · upstream sources: 21 ● 132 flow edges · evidence preserved reports/ ├─ graphs/aml_trace_deposit_sources.graph.json ├─ tables/aml_trace_deposit_sources.flows.csv └─ aml_trace_deposit_sources.trace-report.md
A seeded laundering chain, traced end to end
Incident 2024-05-12 ships inside the free Chain Insights devkit: 40 scam-linked addresses moving $13.7M across 16 hops on Bittensor before hitting cash-out deposits. The graph and evidence below are rendered by the same components the cia tools emit — install the devkit and reproduce every step locally.
Rendered from graph.json (chain-insights.graph.v1) · open graph ↗ · flows.csv
Evidence — top flows by volume
open full table ↗| From | Role | To | Role | Volume | Transfers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5Dxcqz…LJsP | intermediate | 5FZiux…djib | intermediate | $6.0M | 29 |
| 5FXiNN…nrNP | cash-out deposit | 5FZiux…djib | intermediate | $3.3M | 74 |
| 5GTjfJ…Skj5 | victim | 5DABm6…m6c8 | origin | $563.4K | 1 |
| 5FXiNN…nrNP | cash-out deposit | 5Dxcqz…LJsP | intermediate | $548.3K | 8 |
| 5FZiux…djib | intermediate | 5DS3Bc…WjGe | intermediate | $401.6K | 8 |
From the case notesSeeded laundering chain "incident 2024-05-12": 40 addresses across 16 hops on the Bittensor network.
$13.7M moved through 37 address-to-address flow edges before reaching cash-out deposit points.
Cash-out deposits were identified at hops 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 16; evidence pointers preserved for every traced flow.
How it started
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