Caudena Academy

Advanced Blockchain Investigations Course

Go beyond cluster-level tracing.

Learn how to investigate mixers, obfuscation, and cross-chain activity with greater rigor . Built for advanced public-sector investigators and other trusted groups who need stronger methodology, clearer documentation, and more defensible blockchain evidence.

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Why This Blockchain Investigations Course Exists

Traditional blockchain analytics often stops when funds reach a known entity. Criminals know that, and use mixers, nested services, cross-chain swaps, and layered typologies to break the investigative trail.

This course teaches investigators how to push past those dead ends using structured, verifiable methods grounded in raw blockchain data.

Illustration showing how investigators move from deposit to withdrawal events across an obfuscated transaction flow

Comprehensive Coverage of Crypto Mixers and Privacy Tech

Gain expertise in analyzing leading crypto mixers, including Wasabi (1.0 & 2.0), Samourai, ChipMixer, JoinMarket, BestMixer, Jambler, Blender, Sinbad, BitMix, and Tornado Cash.

Master essential privacy technologies like coinjoin, privacy coins, and decentralized mixer systems to enhance your investigative skills.

Grid of mixer, privacy, and tracing icons used across the course

Syllabus

This advanced blockchain investigations course is structured around the core techniques investigators need when traditional tracing reaches a dead end, with especially strong coverage of crypto mixers, privacy tech, and transaction-level investigation methods.

23

Sections

50

Lessons

19

Knowledge checks

1

Certification exam

Privacy Coins

Understand investigative limits, visibility, and responsible reasoning when privacy-preserving assets are involved.

Fingerprints

Identify wallet and transaction fingerprints from raw blockchain data.

Address Types

Understand address formats, script evolution, and why they matter in investigations.

Transaction Features

Work with SegWit, RBF, LockTime, input/output patterns, and other technical signals.

Filtering

Reduce billions of transactions to the few that matter and isolate stronger leads faster.

Mixing Services

Includes Wasabi 1.0, Wasabi 2.0, Samourai, Chipmixer, Bestmixer, JoinMarket, Jambler, Blender, BitMix, Coinomize, and Tornado Cash.

Cross-Chain Swaps

Follow funds across chains and swap paths with better continuity.

Real-World Blockchain Investigation Application

This is not passive learning.

You will work through practical case logic and investigative workflows that help turn apparent dead ends into structured leads, stronger attribution logic, and clearer reporting.

This is especially valuable in cases involving mixers, privacy-preserving assets, and multi-step obfuscation paths where traditional tracing often stalls.

Illustration of mixer deposit and withdrawal flows branching from a central transaction hub

Who This Blockchain Investigations Course Is For?

Designed for advanced public-sector investigators with foundational blockchain knowledge and experience using analytics tools.

Financial crime investigators handling complex crypto cases

Digital forensics specialists facing sophisticated typologies

Analysts hitting dead ends with traditional tracing methods

Teams that need clearer, more defensible blockchain evidence

The Caudena Advantage

Caudena helps investigators work beyond the traditional cluster view.

A key advantage of this course is its combination of transaction-level analysis, comprehensive mixer and privacy-tech coverage, advanced filtering, demixing workflows, and cross-chain tracing.

That gives investigators a more complete framework for validating findings against raw blockchain data and building stronger case narratives.

Case map visual demonstrating cross-chain investigative reasoning in Caudena

Caudena Works With Agencies And Institutions Including

Belgian Police
Europol
Bundeskriminalamt
Gendarmerie Nationale
Interpol
BMI Austria
French Customs
Polizei Hessen
Policja
Nippon National Police
Ontario Police
Brooklyn District Attorney
LAPD
FBI
Secret Service
Department of Homeland Security
IRS-CI

Access Process

Create your account and continue into the academy.
Take the optional prerequisite exam, and submit your access request.
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Advanced public-sector investigators and other trusted groups with prior blockchain knowledge and analytics experience.