Elliptic launches Pulse, an AI tool that lets any cop screen crypto wallets in seconds

Most crypto investigations have a bottleneck problem. A patrol officer encounters a wallet address in a fraud case, has no idea what to do with it, and the case sits until it reaches someone with specialist training. Elliptic thinks it has a fix. The blockchain analytics firm has launched Pulse, an AI-assisted tool that lets any law enforcement officer paste in a wallet address or transaction hash and receive a plain-language risk summary within seconds. No chain-by-chain tracing. No specialist required at the starting line. What Pulse actually does Pulse sits at the front of an investigation, not the back. An officer inputs an address, and the tool cross-references it against Elliptic’s dataset, which covers more than 65 blockchains, more than 250 bridges, and over 1 billion attributed addresses, including those flagged as sanctioned entities or linked to terrorism financing. The output is a plain-language summary with risk indicators and a recommendation on whether to escalate. Assessments feed directly into Elliptic’s existing Lens platform, where specialists can pick up the thread. Pulse is part of a broader suite of AI agents Elliptic has been building out. The company also la...