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About CipherOwl
A US team building on-chain compliance and investigation tools for institutions since 2024, with clients among exchanges, custodians, banks, stablecoin issuers and law enforcement. It addresses the fact that conventional screening returns a risk score without explaining why funds are suspicious. The product has two layers: the SR³ stack handles screening, reasoning, research and reporting, turning addresses, entities and flows into a graph with source citations, while an agent called Strix reconstructs fund movements, maps entity relationships and rebuilds timelines on top of it, producing evidence packages with a reasoning trail that can go into suspicious activity reports and regulatory enquiries. Deployment supports self-hosting, keeping client data inside their perimeter.
It connects to risk systems at exchanges and custodians for counterparty screening at onboarding, deposit and large-transfer stages, and replaces manual block explorer work in case investigations. Compared with list-matching tools, the difference is an explainable attribution path and reproducible evidence; compared with general analytics platforms, it folds report generation into the investigation workflow. Clients are concentrated among regulated institutions, outputs feed straight into case management and regulatory filing, and self-hosting keeps data inside the institution.
On 6 October 2026 CipherOwl announced a 15 million dollar seed round led by General Catalyst, Flourish Ventures and Enlight Capital with participation from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures, Road Capitals and Sancus Ventures. Founded by alumni of Coinbase's onchain data team and Cruise, it builds an AI compliance layer for stablecoins and institutional digital assets.
Its stack pairs SR³ with an agent called Strix: the former fuses multichain transaction data with global intelligence to produce an auditable evidence trail per transaction, with sub-10 millisecond screening latency and coverage of chains representing about 98 percent of market value; the latter runs investigations, maps entity relationships and drafts suspicious activity reports, which the company says resolves alerts about ten times faster than the industry baseline. CipherOwl joined Arc mainnet as a compliance partner on day one and later worked with Predicate to enforce risk data before execution.Commercially it prices screening, investigation and reporting as separate tiers and offers Docker self-hosting. It says clients span exchanges, custodians, protocols, banks and government agencies, with case closure cut from hours to minutes.
CipherOwl aims to make pre-execution blocking and post-execution proof a default compliance module for stablecoins and RWA, and to expand self-hosted deployments that meet data sovereignty demands of regulated institutions.
Leo Liang — Co-founder & CEO; former Head of Data Platform & Services at Coinbase; earlier at Cruise, Twitter and AWS.
Ming Jiang — Co-founder & CPO; previously led product for Coinbase's on-chain data and compliance services.