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Blockchain crime, evidence and compliance in Kenya.
Regulatory analysis, tracing methodology and the laundering typologies we encounter in regional casework. Written for practitioners rather than for search engines.
The 4 November licensing deadline: what it actually requiresThe transitional window under the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act closes on 4 November 2026. After that date, operating without a licence is a criminal offence. Here is what the regime asks of you, and what we see businesses getting wrong.Read Reading a peel chain, and why it defeats most peoplePeel chains beat investigators through patience rather than sophistication, which is precisely why they survive contact with a spreadsheet. Here is the structure, why manual tracing fails on it, and the signatures that give it away.Read Why TRC-20 stablecoins dominate illicit flows in East AfricaGlobal blockchain crime reporting is written from a largely Western dataset, and it consistently under-weights the rail that matters most in this region. If your monitoring was designed around Bitcoin and Ethereum, you have a blind spot.Read On-chain evidence: what a Kenyan court will ask youBlockchain analysis is only useful if it survives contact with a courtroom. Most reports we review would not, and the reasons are consistent enough to be worth setting out plainly.Read