Seized money does not return itself. Someone has to prove who it belongs to.
Crypto theft is being fought at record scale. The DOJ task force covering scam centers has seized $580M+ and returned $800M+. Tether, the company behind USDT, has frozen $4.2B across 2,300+ cases. Courts are taking over collapsed companies and appointing professionals to recover what is left.
Here is the part most people miss: when the government seizes stolen money, it does not automatically go back to the victims. Every victim, and every estate, must file paperwork that proves "this specific money came from me." That proof means following the money through public blockchain records and writing it up so a court will accept it.
Who sells that proof today? Software companies sell tools, not finished documents. Big consultancies charge $100K and up. Nobody sells the finished, court-ready document at a fair fixed price. That gap is the business, and CipherBlade is the firm that fills it.
About $0.7 to $1.2 billion is spent on crypto tracing today (triangulated from five analyst estimates plus federal spending records). A single expert report already sells for $8K to $100K, so fixed prices are the norm. The market has five layers, and the court-ready-evidence layer is the one nobody owns.
The trend helps us: more cases, smaller average losses. That means thousands of matters too small for a $500K software contract and exactly the right size for a fixed-fee desk. The buyers already have budgets: lawyers for victims, court-appointed receivers, and stablecoin issuers.
Find flagged money. Build the proof. Sell it to the party who needs it.
A strategy desk watches public records, court filings and seizure announcements, for pools of stolen or frozen crypto. Each pool gets two scores: can the money still be recovered, and will someone pay for the proof? Anything the live blockchain data does not support is killed on the spot. What survives becomes a pack: a fixed-price evidence product matched to a named buyer with a real budget.
| The desk does | Finds the targets, checks every fact, builds the packs, maps who to contact, drafts the letters. |
| CipherBlade does | Is the firm the client hires. Every letter, delivery, and invoice carries the CipherBlade name. You are the company on the door. |
| Fees | Fixed prices, printed in advance. Never a percentage of what victims recover. We are paid for the work, not the outcome. |
Two products are built, approved, and priced.
| Pack A | Victim Recovery Evidence Pack. In July the DOJ filed five cases to seize $25M+ stolen from 470+ scam victims. Each victim now needs proof that their money went to the seized wallets. We sell that proof to the victims' lawyers: $15K per case, $25K per batch of ten victims, $35K for both. Read the pack. |
| Pack B | Estate Evidence Desk. Goliath Ventures collapsed with $328M of victim losses. A court-appointed receiver is finding the assets, and 578+ victims have filed claims. The court has already authorized hiring blockchain experts, and no tracing firm has taken the seat. We offer the receiver a $50K fixed pilot. Read the pack. |
| Pipeline | $85K+ priced and ready to sell. $0 collected so far. Collected cash is the only score that counts. |
You are the delivery firm and the name on every letter. The targets are researched, the letters are drafted in your voice, the order is set. Nothing is sent without sign-off.
| Forfeiture | A court case where the government takes money tied to a crime. |
| Remission | The application a victim files to get their share of forfeited money back. |
| Receivership | A court takes over a collapsed company and appoints a professional, the receiver, to find its assets and repay victims. |
| Proof of claim | The form a victim files in that case: "the company owes me this much." |
| Tracing | Following money hop by hop through public blockchain records. |
| Declaration standard | Written carefully enough that a named expert signs it and a court accepts it. |