Blockchain Forensics and Cryptocurrency Forensics involves in understanding, identifying, tracking, interpretation, extraction and analysis of flow of cryptocurrency and cryptoassets on blockchain network.
There are exisiting tools and technologies that exists as part of a Blockchain Ecosystem which could help the forensics investigator to understand and analyse the Cryptocurrency or Blockchain Transactions.
- Blockchain Explorer is a search engine tool used to browse and provide information on addresses, tokens, transactions, smart contracts, balances, blocks, nodes and blockchain statistics. There are multiple explorers available for Bitcoin and Ethereum Blockchain, the two most popular Blockchain Networks.
- Client/Full Node is a client that is normally installed in the node, which downloads the complete blocks into the node and contributes in validation of transactions, blocks and participates in the process of mining.
- CryptoWallet is software or hardware service which maintains the public and/or the private keys of the account or cryptocurrency.