Uppsala Security Joins INTERPOL Gateway to Aid Bitcoin (BTC) Crime Tracing

Uppsala Security Enters INTERPOL's Gateway

Blockchain analytics firm Uppsala Security is joining Gateway, INTERPOL's public–private framework for coordinating cybercrime response, according to an announcement the company issued on September 8. Through the framework, Uppsala will contribute blockchain analysis, transaction tracing and digital-asset intelligence designed to help law-enforcement agencies work cases involving virtual-asset crime. Gateway dates back to 2019, when INTERPOL formalized a channel through which private partners — banks, cybersecurity vendors and technology firms — submit cyber-threat intelligence that the agency processes into investigative material and distributes to its member states.

Uppsala is not entering cold. The firm previously operated as a private partner on INTERPOL-led crackdowns, including Operation Serengeti 2.0, which ran from June through August 2025 across 18 African countries with UK investigators also involved. That operation ended with 1,209 suspects arrested and roughly $97.4 million recovered, with Uppsala working alongside Fortinet, Kaspersky and TRM Labs. It also contributed to Operation Red Card 2.0, staged across 16 African countries between December and January, which produced 651 arrests and about $4.3 million in recovered funds. The targets in both waves were the fraud networks that dominate the region's cybercrime economy — schemes that frequently dress up as copy-trading services or funnel victims through malicious dApps and counterfeit blockchain domains.

INTERPOL's cybercrime director, Neal Jetton, framed the partnership as a response to scale: cybercrime is now so tightly interwoven with the abuse of digital assets that no single agency can address it alone, and Gateway exists to convert blockchain intelligence into real investigative leads and action. Patrick Kim, Uppsala's founder and chief executive, said the company aims to help investigators respond to digital-asset crime through the arrangement. For the wider market — Bitcoin (BTC) changing hands near $78,800 at the time of writing — the deal signals that state-grade tracing capacity is being extended deeper into everyday enforcement.

BTCC's Sumsub-Backed Compliance Stack

BTCC, the exchange founded in 2011 and marking its 15th anniversary this year, is the subject of a newly published customer case study by Sumsub, the identity-verification and fraud-prevention platform it uses among its KYC and anti-money-laundering providers. The study, available on Sumsub's own customer page, details how the automated compliance infrastructure underpinning BTCC's platform security operates at scale across the exchange's global footprint. It supports user onboarding in more than 100 countries, delivers a median identity-verification time of roughly three seconds, and — through automation — saves BTCC's compliance team more than 40 hours of manual review every week.

The automated workflows span customer due diligence, AML screening, transaction monitoring, Travel Rule compliance and virtual-asset monitoring. The system flags high-risk activity in real time while keeping legitimate users moving through the platform without unnecessary friction — a balance that has become the practical test of any venue's compliance stack, and one long present in roundups of the Best Crypto Exchanges.

The case study also situates the Sumsub integration inside a longer security record. BTCC has operated without a major security incident since launch, publishes monthly Proof of Reserves reports, and maintains a $25.5 million risk reserve fund dedicated to protecting user assets. The exchange counts more than 12 million users across over 100 countries and serves as an official regional sponsor of the Argentine Football Association. Its newly launched 0-Barrier Trading event carries a “0 Panic” theme, with the company positioning strict identity checks and AML controls as the foundation of the trust its trading environment depends on. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Binance.

Compliance Infrastructure Gains an Edge

Read together, the two moves describe the same shift from opposite ends: enforcement agencies institutionalizing private blockchain intelligence — the category of threat-intel work long commercialized by cybersecurity firms such as CrowdStrike — and exchanges industrializing the verification layer regulators now expect. The primary-source record is concrete on the Sumsub side: the published case study states the 100-plus-country coverage, the roughly three-second median check and the 40-plus weekly hours saved, but does not disclose the commercial terms of the engagement. Uppsala's Gateway role likewise confirms the intelligence it will provide, not its financial scope. As Bitcoin (BTC) holds near $78,800, tracing and verification capacity is quietly becoming baseline infrastructure for the asset class.