TRM Labs, a prominent blockchain intelligence platform, announced a strategic partnership with Sphinx, an innovator in AI agents for financial crime detection, on December 17, 2025, in San Francisco. This collaboration aims to provide compliance teams with advanced automation and intelligence solutions, addressing the mounting operational pressures that organizations face in the rapidly evolving digital asset landscape.
The urgency for such a partnership is underscored by Sphinx’s findings, which reveal that many organizations are grappling with backlogs exceeding 10,000 cases. This surge is driven by three key trends: the rise of high-throughput blockchains, where networks like Solana can process over 3,000 transactions per second compared to Bitcoin’s seven; the emergence of agentic commerce, where AI agents autonomously conduct transactions on behalf of users; and the ongoing tokenization of real-world assets, shifting more economic value onto the blockchain.
In tandem with increasing transaction volumes, malicious actors are also leveraging AI technology. Data from Chainabuse, an open-source fraud reporting platform operated by TRM Labs, indicates that reports of generative AI-enhanced scams surged by 456% from May 2024 to April 2025 compared to the previous year.
To counter this escalating threat, compliance teams require new methodologies for data processing and alert triage. The integration of TRM with Sphinx introduces several enhancements: it provides actionable risk signals that can be customized to align with individual organizational risk thresholds, facilitates faster alert triage through Sphinx’s AI compliance agents, and automates compliance workflows within defined parameters. This automation allows for the aggregation of data across various systems and the execution of repeatable tasks from start to finish.
“The speed that digital assets move through the economy is outpacing human review,” noted Esteban Castaño, CEO and co-founder of TRM Labs. He emphasized that the partnership leverages TRM’s transparent, high-confidence risk intelligence and Sphinx’s AI agents to create reliable contexts for teams to make defensible decisions. “Together, we’re enabling compliance teams to move at the speed of the ecosystem — without sacrificing the human judgment that keeps our financial system safe,” he added.
Alexandre Berkovic, CEO and co-founder of Sphinx, echoed this sentiment, stating, “Most teams aren’t short on data – they’re short on time. TRM surfaces the risk signals, and Sphinx handles the work that usually eats up hours. This partnership lets compliance teams operate at the speed the ecosystem actually moves.”
The integration is now generally available to customers of both TRM and Sphinx. Users can activate Sphinx’s AI agents within TRM’s Transaction Monitoring system using their TRM API keys and configure the agents via Sphinx’s dashboard to streamline alert reviews and case workflows.
TRM Labs specializes in blockchain analytics solutions aimed at assisting law enforcement, national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses in detecting, investigating, and disrupting crypto-related fraud and financial crime. Its platform features tools for tracing the movement of funds, identifying illicit activities, and constructing a comprehensive threat landscape. Based in San Francisco, TRM Labs is actively hiring across various domains including engineering, product management, sales, and data science.
Similarly, Sphinx develops configurable AI agents designed to automate anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer/business (KYC/KYB), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and transaction-monitoring tasks across existing case-management tools. By integrating seamlessly into both legacy and contemporary compliance infrastructures, Sphinx enables financial institutions to enhance decision-making efficiency, lower operational burdens, and maintain consistent, defensible outcomes despite high case volumes. Sphinx is also based in San Francisco and is expanding its team across engineering, product, operations, and go-to-market roles.
This partnership between TRM Labs and Sphinx appears poised to reshape the landscape of compliance operations, providing organizations with the tools necessary to keep pace with the rapid advancements in digital asset transactions and the complexities of financial crime. As regulatory scrutiny intensifies and the volume of transactions continues to rise, the integration of AI and blockchain intelligence may become indispensable for compliance teams aiming to safeguard the integrity of the financial ecosystem.
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