TRM Labs and Sphinx Partner to Enable AML Compliance at Scale with AI-powered Agents

By combining TRM’s intelligence and investigation capabilities with Sphinx’s configurable AI agents, the partnership enables compliance teams to automate repetitive workflows, accelerate decision-making, and scale financial crime disruption

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San Francisco, CA — December 17, 2025 — TRM Labs, the leading blockchain intelligence platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Sphinx, a pioneer in AI agents for financial crime detection and compliance operations. Together, the two companies will bring next-generation automation and intelligence to compliance teams facing unprecedented operational pressure.

According to Sphinx’s research, most organizations now manage backlogs of over 10,000 cases. Three converging trends will exponentially increase this volume: 

• High-throughput blockchains: Solana processes over 3,000 transactions per second compared to seven per second on Bitcoin
• Agentic commerce: AI agents increasingly transact autonomously on behalf of users and organizations.
• Tokenization of real-world assets: More economic value continues to move on-chain.

In addition to rapidly increasing transaction volumes, illicit actors are adopting AI at scale. According to data from Chainabuse, TRM Lab’s open-source fraud reporting platform, reports of generative artificial intelligence (genAI)-enabled scams between May 2024 and April 2025 rose by 456%, compared with the same period in 2023-24.

Compliance teams need a new way to process data and triage alerts to match the speed at which digital assets move through the economy. TRM’s integration with Sphinx enables:

• Actionable risk signals: Configure rules aligned to your organization’s risk thresholds in TRM Transaction Monitoring to reduce noise and false positives 
• Faster alert triage: Sphinx’s AI compliance agents gather evidence, enrich cases, and draft dispositions for analyst review — accelerating, not replacing, human judgment.
• Automated compliance workflows: Within defined  parameters, Sphinx can aggregate data across your organization’s systems and execute repeatable tasks end-to-end.

“The speed that digital assets move through the economy is outpacing human review,” said Esteban Castaño, CEO and co-founder of TRM Labs. “TRM surfaces transparent, high-confidence risk intelligence, and Sphinx’s AI agents turn it into reliable context 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.”

“Most teams aren’t short on data – they’re short on time,” said Alexandre Berkovic, CEO and co-founder of Sphinx. “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 generally available to TRM and Sphinx customers. Teams can use their TRM API key to enable Sphinx’s AI agents in TRM Transaction Monitoring and configure the agents through Sphinx’s dashboard to automate alert review and case workflows.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics solutions to help law enforcement and national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence platform includes solutions to trace the source and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to enable a safer, more secure crypto ecosystem. TRM is based in San Francisco, CA, and is hiring across engineering, product, sales, and data science. To learn more, visit www.trmlabs.com.

About Sphinx

Sphinx develops configurable AI agents that perform AML, KYC/KYB, EDD, and transaction-monitoring reviews across existing case-management tools. Its agent framework automates evidence gathering, policy execution, and disposition drafting while preserving analyst oversight and auditability. By integrating directly into legacy and modern compliance stacks, Sphinx allows financial institutions to scale decision-making, reduce operational load, and maintain consistent, defensible outcomes at high volume. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, and is hiring across engineering, product, operations, and GTM. To learn more, visit www.sphinxhq.com.

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FAQs

1. What does the TRM Labs and Sphinx integration enable?

The integration enables compliance teams to automate repetitive tasks in TRM Transaction Monitoring using Sphinx’s configurable AI agents. After an alert is triggered, agents gather evidence, enrich case files, and draft dispositions for review — accelerating alert triage while preserving human judgment.

2. How do TRM’s risk signals and Sphinx’s AI agents work together?

TRM surfaces high-fidelity risk alerts based on configurable rules. Sphinx agents ingest those alerts, aggregate context from defined data sources, and generate alert summaries with recommendations to accelerate decision-making.

3. Who benefits from this integration?

Compliance teams at financial institutions, crypto-native businesses, and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) benefit from faster investigations, reduced alert fatigue, and automated data aggregation.

4. Is this solution available to all TRM customers?

Yes. The integration is available to TRM and Sphinx customers. Agents can be activated with a TRM API key and configured in the Sphinx dashboard.

5. What makes this different from other AI compliance tools?

Unlike other tools, this solution combines TRM’s industry-leading blockchain intelligence with AI agents that execute repeatable tasks and follow organization-specific workflows. Compliance teams can build context on transaction monitoring alerts faster and keep pace with the evolving digital asset ecosystem, without relying on adding headcount.