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Byron Labs and Merkle Science are joining forces to give investigators, compliance teams, and cybersecurity professionals a more complete view of crypto-related crime. By combining Byron Labs’ cyber threat intelligence with Merkle Science’s predictive cryptocurrency risk and blockchain analytics, this partnership helps clients see further, act faster, and respond more effectively to illicit activity across both off-chain and on-chain environments.
As a provider of cyber threat intelligence, Byron Labs tracks and gathers information from a wide range of cybercriminal activities and sources. Their team monitors darknet marketplaces, underground forums, and other high-risk environments where threat actors coordinate attacks, sell stolen data, and launder funds. Because so much of this activity is now intertwined with cryptocurrencies, Byron Labs wanted a trusted blockchain analytics partner that could seamlessly plug into their existing analysis workflows.
Merkle Science was a natural fit. Our behavior-based, predictive risk intelligence platform is built to analyze blockchain transactions, uncover patterns of illicit activity, and support investigations. Integrating Merkle Science into Byron Labs’ tools allows them to enrich their cyber threat feeds with precise, contextual on-chain data, without having to build a blockchain analytics capability in-house.
Byron Labs and Merkle Science bring complementary strengths to the fight against financial crime.
Byron Labs specializes in off-chain intelligence—monitoring cybercriminal activity on the darknet and other online environments where threat actors communicate, organize, and advertise illicit services. This open-source intelligence (OSINT) helps identify actors, infrastructure, and tactics around an attack or fraud scheme.
Merkle Science focuses on on-chain intelligence—tracing the flow of funds across blockchains, identifying high-risk counterparties, clustering addresses, and detecting patterns linked to fraud, scams, ransomware, sanctions evasion, and other illicit behavior.
Together, this creates a more complete intelligence picture: Byron Labs provides the off-chain context, and Merkle Science maps how the money moves. Instead of stitching these insights together manually, clients can correlate them within a unified analytical framework, making investigations faster, clearer, and more actionable.
During their vendor evaluation, Byron Labs looked for more than just a feature set. Merkle Science stood out for its long-standing commitment to collaborating with law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to fight cybercrime, alongside a mature and sophisticated product.
That shared vision—using technology to dismantle cybercrime and financial crime, not just observe it—created strong alignment between the two companies and laid the foundation for this strategic partnership.
At the core of this collaboration is a simple principle: threat intelligence becomes more powerful when it is shared and integrated.
As Dr. Carlos Cilleruelo Rodríguez of Byron Labs puts it: “Threat intelligence is fundamentally based on sharing information across organizations and tools. Integrations between complementary tools are crucial for building a safer and more secure world.”
By integrating Merkle Science’s blockchain analytics into Byron Labs’ platform, clients can connect darknet chatter, cyber threat indicators, and blockchain transaction data in a single workflow instead of working in separate silos.
For financial institutions, virtual asset service providers (VASPs), and other organizations navigating digital finance, the partnership between Byron Labs and Merkle Science means deeper visibility into illicit blockchain activity, better context for complex investigations, and stronger support for cybersecurity and regulatory compliance efforts.
At Merkle Science, we remain committed to equipping our clients with the most advanced tools to navigate the complex world of digital finance safely and efficiently.
