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Criminal use of crypto spikes after years of steady decline, TRM report says

  • Jesse Hamilton--CoinDesk
  • published date: 2026-01-28 14:00:00 UTC

While the increasingly professional bad guys' crypto rocketed to $158 billion in 2025, it's still a decreasing share of overall digital assets activity.

Criminal actors pulled in $158 billion in digital assets last year, which marked a sudden increase in the value of illicit activity after years of decline, according to a report released by TRM Labs … [+2939 chars]