Professional Certificate in Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Investigations
Trace illicit crypto: how blockchains and wallets work, how to follow the money on a public ledger, seize assets lawfully, and build a courtroom-ready case.
Tuition
$499
Intermediate
Level
5
Modules
19
Lessons
5
Graded quizzes
10 hours
Estimated time
What you will be able to do
- Explain how blockchains, transactions, and wallets work and why crypto is traceable
- Follow the money across addresses, hops, and exchanges using sound methodology
- Recognize anonymization and privacy tools and how they complicate tracing
- Seize cryptocurrency lawfully and preserve evidence with chain of custody
- Produce a clear, courtroom-ready investigative report
What is inside
5 modules, 19 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz.
- 01
Foundations of Cryptocurrency Investigations
A practical grounding in how blockchains, transactions, wallets, and addresses work, and why the public ledger makes cryptocurrency traceable for lawful investigation. Builds the core mental model investigators need before following the money.
4 lessons · 8 quiz questions
- 02
Advanced Blockchain and Privacy Technology
This module explains the privacy and anonymity technologies that investigators encounter when tracing illicit cryptocurrency, including anonymization networks, mixers, privacy coins, encryption, and smart contracts, and shows how each one complicates a trace and what lawful options remain.
4 lessons · 8 quiz questions
- 03
Cryptocurrency Forensic Techniques
A practical guide to investigating illicit cryptocurrency, covering structured investigative methodology, wallet monitoring and address clustering, following funds across hops and exchanges, recognizing illicit patterns, and the categories of blockchain analytics tools used in lawful tracing work.
4 lessons · 8 quiz questions
- 04
Seizure, Evidence, and Legal Process
This module teaches investigators how to lawfully seize cryptocurrency, preserve digital evidence with a defensible chain of custody, work within warrant and legal-process requirements, recognize money-laundering schemes that move through crypto, and assemble a case that holds up for prosecution.
4 lessons · 8 quiz questions
- 05
Casework and Reporting
This module shows you how to turn raw tracing work into a clear, defensible investigative report and present blockchain evidence so non-technical readers can follow it. It closes with an end-to-end mini case that moves a matter from an initial tip to a courtroom-ready package.
3 lessons · 8 quiz questions