The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published its 2019 fiscal year pre-solicitation document. Throughout the 27-page letter, the organization explains that it wants to dedicate resources toward creating blockchain forensic applications that can analyze privacy-centric digital asset movements. Prior efforts have addressed bitcoin analytics and now the agency wants surveillance tools for cryptocurrencies like monero and zcash.


The DHS has submitted a proposal for its Small Business Innovation Research program, which also incorporates its Science and Technology platform. The document covers subjects like cybersecurity, communications, the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, and blockchain technology. The DHS agency explains that Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) will likely be leveraged for commercial and government applications in the future, but some of these blockchains allow for unfavorable methods of anonymity and transaction obfuscation.

The agency further details that while privacy features are desirable, there is an interest for some individuals and organizations to use these funds for actions of an “illegal nature.” These illicit acts bolster the need for forensic analysis on blockchain transactions that exercise anonymity tactics. The DHS proposal explains that the agency wants to mitigate these issues by following three phases. The first phase is for researchers and programmers to design a blockchain analysis ecosystem for law enforcement agencies, or to modify an existing DLT analysis tool for this purpose. The new tool must be able to provide surveillance architecture specifically for privacy currencies such as monero and zcash.


The second phase is to develop a blockchain monitoring prototype that can be demonstrated and that involves the analysis of “suspicious transactions without external data, with external data, and on another blockchain platform.” Lastly, the third phase will include the rollout of commercial and government-grade blockchain surveillance applications. 

“Blockchain forensic analytics for the homeland security enterprise can help the DHS law enforcement and security operations across components as well as state and local law enforcement operations,” states page 21 of the DHS solicitation letter. “Private financial institutions can likewise benefit from such capabilities in enforcing “know your customer” and anti-money laundering compliance.”



US Law Enforcement Wants Blockchain Surveillance Tools for Privacy Coins
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The DHS has been investigating blockchain and cryptocurrency activities for quite some time as this is not the first instance of the agency looking to stop anonymous cryptocurrency transactions. Back in April of 2016, the DHS created a taskforce in order to identify unlicensed bitcoin exchangers. Moreover, the DHS and a myriad of other U.S.-based three letter agencies have been arresting money launderers using cryptocurrencies. Even those selling digital assets using peer-to-peer marketplaces like Localbitcoins have been apprehended by the department. The group has also funded many blockchain startups with millions of dollars for research and development (R&D) over the years.

The solicitation letter emphasized that the current drafted proposal is not set in stone and will likely be officially published on Dec. 19. The blockchain and DLT section of the proposal details that law enforcement needs to speed up when it comes to forensic analysis and blockchain transaction R&D. “This analysis can be approached in any number of ways and may consider different data situation use cases depending on whether additional data from offchain sources are available,” the letter’s cryptocurrency section concludes.

What do you think about the DHS solicitation documentation asking for blockchain surveillance tools for cryptocurrencies like monero and zcash? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Via: Bitcoin-new

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has launched a new derivative product called  Perpetual Swap trading, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph Dec. 3.

Perpetual Swap is a peer-to-peer, virtual derivative developed by OKex, that enables users to speculate the direction of the price of digital assets. Its mechanism is reportedly very similar to a futures contract, but with no expiry and daily settlement. Each swap contract has a notional value of $100 Bitcoin (BTC) equivalent.

Per the release, the new derivative product allows users to perform perpetual swaps, futures contract, and spot trade with margin and leverage simultaneously. OKex will reportedly start Perpetual Swap trading on Dec. 11.

Contract trading allows users to purchase and sell digital currencies at predetermined prices at specified times in the future, giving investors and traders an opportunity to open both long and short positions.

OKEx Financial Market Director Lennix Lai noted that “we would like to remind our users that due to its highly leverage nature, implementing risk control strategies are equally crucial in trading.”

In October, OKEx delisted over 50 trading pairs with weak liquidity and trading volume. Later in November, the exchange announced it was delisting a second swathe of trading pairs due to “weak liquidity” in order to “create a robust trading environment and offer the best trading experience” for traders.

In late November, leading digital currency exchange Huobi launched the Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM), allowing its customers engage in cryptocurrency contract trading on both rising and falling cryptocurrency prices.

At press time, OKex is the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of adjusted daily trading volume, which is around $523 million, according to CoinMarketCap.

Via: Coin telegraph

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking information about investigating and analyzing blockchains, including those used for privacy coins, according to a pre-solicitation notice published Nov. 30.

DHS has released a proposal, which invites interested parties to comment and design applications for blockchain forensic analytics in respect to emerging cryptocurrencies. The proposal also calls for solutions that would enable investigators to conduct relevant analysis on blockchain transactions.

Notably, DHS states that, while previous analysis has been conducted on Bitcoin (BTC) analytics, this only covers a “limited scope in the realm of cryptocurrencies.” The DHS proposal seeks applications of blockchain analytics for privacy-oriented altcoins like Zcash and Monero, which operate on private blockchains.

The document notes that ongoing research within the field facilitates technologies, the key features of which include better capabilities for maintaining anonymity and privacy protection. While DHS notes that these traits are “desirable,” there is “a compelling interest in tracing and understanding transactions and actions on the blockchain of an illegal nature.”

The forensic analysis of blockchain transactions could purportedly be approached in various ways and consider different data situation use cases, while the desired solution should “provide working approaches to treating newer blockchain implementations.” DHS also notes that the solution may be applied in other aspects of administration:

“Because of the significant impact in areas such as governance, data sharing agreement enforcement, and encrypted analytics interchanges, there are a wide variety of applications in government and the commercial marketplace that can benefit from successful product development.”

The current document is a pre-solicitation notice. During the pre-solicitation period, the agency seeks to receive technical questions and consultation, but will not entertain formal applications by experts and businesses with possible solutions. The release of the final solicitation is scheduled for Dec. 19, 2018.

In late November, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced it will host a two-day blockchain workshop in February. DARPA is the research arm of the Department of Defense.

The federal agency is mostly interested in “several, less-explored avenues of permissionless distributed consensus protocols,” including creating large-scale permissionless distributed consensus protocols without paying participants,  economic-driven security models and centralities for such protocols.

Via: Coin Telegraph

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