Field: Security, threat detection & prevention
Services: Real-time on- and off-chain monitoring, automated incident response, regulator-ready dashboards with evidence generation
Customers: Stablecoin issuers, DeFi platforms, and crypto exchanges
Extractor by Hacken is a real-time threat intelligence and response platform that unifies on- and off-chain monitoring with incident response to help organizations stop exploits before losses occur, while generating regulator-ready evidence to prove strong security and compliance controls.
When Hacken built Extractor — a real-time threat intelligence and response platform for stablecoins, RWA, DeFi, and exchanges to prevent crypto hacks — they faced one key challenge: keeping up with the speed of crypto crime without compromising data accuracy.
In the first half of 2025, hackers were able to move stolen funds up to 75x faster than AML alerts, with some transfers happening just 4 seconds after an attack. Learn more in our latest report.
This growing speed gap makes reliable, real-time data essential for any compliance system. What’s more, most clients don’t need full-scale investigations. They need fast, accurate verification of transactions and entities, with instant alerts about suspicious activity within their compliance workflow. Before partnering with Global Ledger, Hacken’s clients often worked with fragmented data sources, making it difficult to fully trust the accuracy of every AML check.
Therefore, Hacken needed a partner that could provide trusted data with jurisdiction-wide AML coverage and seamless API integration, ensuring that their clients had real-time access to verified, accurate information.
Global Ledger component in use: Unique Database (via API integration)
Usage duration: Over 1 year
Global Ledger’s extensive database has become one of the key data inputs “powering” AML monitoring within Hacken’s Extractor platform.
Backed by verifiable attribution and millions of labelled addresses, the Global Ledger database provides reliable insights into risky entities, wallets, and hack- or scam-related activity. Thanks to this data, Extractor users can detect illicit behaviour across swaps, smart contracts, and multi-hop transactions, gaining full transparency into every activity they monitor.
1. Unique AML Database
Access to millions of identified and labelled crypto addresses strengthens global AML risk monitoring and enables faster detection of suspicious activity.
2. Verifiable Attribution
Each attribution is manually verified and backed by a provable source, ensuring data credibility in both regulatory and investigative settings. Extractor users now can rely on fully validated, court-admissible information when assessing AML risks.
3. Reliable API Access
Seamless integration through Global Ledger’s API allows Hacken to maintain real-time monitoring without operational complexity.
Before Integration with the Database:
1. Missing or stale AML attributions. Small AML categories address lists
2. Limited capacity to verify all transactions for larger projects
3. Depended on internal collection
After Integration with the Database:
1. Large and verified AML categories lists
2. AML/CFT verification for all transactions, no matter the project size
3. Backed by verifiable attribution and proven sources
What Global Ledger’s features and functionalities were most valuable to the client?
By partnering with Global Ledger and leveraging its verified AML database alongside other data sources, Hacken enhanced its AML/CFT risk monitoring and alerting within one platform covering regulatory, security, and compliance requirements.
The collaboration strengthened Hacken’s ability to provide clients with reliable, high-quality AML insights, resulting in:
Global Ledger’s real-time blockchain analytics platform — covering 700k crypto assets, 700M+ attributed addresses, and processing over 500K AML checks daily — helps financial institutions, VASPs, regulators, and law enforcement worldwide reduce risk, ensure compliance, and fight financial crime.
Make compliance, risk monitoring, and investigations faster and easier with Global Ledger.