Morel founded Arkham in 2020 and received investments from
angel investors including
Tim Draper,
Joe Lonsdale of
Palantir Technologies, and
Sam Altman of
OpenAI and
Worldcoin. This data was used by prosecutors from the
Southern District of New York, who filed criminal charges against Bankman-Fried for his role in FTX's collapse. That same month, Arkham released a report which revealed that
Alameda liquidators lost $72,000 worth of crypto while trying to recover funds as part of
FTX's bankruptcy. In June 2024, Arkham offered a $150,000 bounty on its Intel Exchange, which was solved and paid out, to anyone who discovered who was behind the DJT crypto asset. During an X Spaces event earlier that month,
Martin Shkreli claimed that he and Barron Trump were behind the
Trump-branded cryptocurrency. In July 2024, Arkham tracked the German Government's movements of Bitcoin to centralized crypto exchanges like
Coinbase,
Kraken, and
Bitstamp as it completely sold off its nearly 50,000 BTC holdings worth more than $2 billion at the time. German authorities had seized the Bitcoin from the operators of
Movie2k.to and transferred it to a crypto wallet Arkham identified as being owned by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office. Arkham tagged the cryptocurrency wallets of
Mt. Gox, the defunct cryptocurrency exchange, which as of July 2024 held nearly 140,000 bitcoin. Arkham users were then able to track the onchain movements of those holdings, worth billions of dollars, as the trustee began making repayments to creditors. Other notable blockchain identifications include
Robinhood Markets and
Justin Sun. In July 2024, Arkham signed a two-season sponsorship deal with Turkish
Süper Lig football team
Galatasaray. ==Token==