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Coinbase has a blockchain analysis product called Coinbase Analytics

In order to sell to the goverment and get public contracts money you have to register, Coinbase registered on April 13 2020

https://beta.sam.gov/entity/081007539?keywords=Coinbase&sort=-relevance&index=&is_active=true&page=1

The DEA and IRS bought themselves a subscription to Coinbase Analytics in May

https://beta.sam.gov/opp/c117b879f0...&sort=-relevance&index=&is_active=true&page=1

From the DEA Source Acquisation filing...

The Coinbase Analytics platform extracts and analyzes information regarding transactions using cryptocurrencies on their respective blockchains and analyzes it in conjunction with other publicly available information

Coinbase Analytics (CA) cryptocurrency intelligence tool, provides investigators with identity attribution and de-anonymities virtual currency addresses domestically and internationally. CA is known for its accuracy of attribution which includes some of the most conservative heuristics used in commercial blockchain tracing tools. This is critical in avoiding false positive during target identification.

https://video.gamelive.com/coinbase-dea.pdf
 
A recent 51% attack that impacted Ethereum Classic (ETC) is believed to have resulted in approximately $5.6 million worth of the cryptocurrency being double-spent.

A report published by Aleksey Studnev of blockchain forensics firm Bitquery on August 5 has revealed the extent of the incident, with Bitquery estimating that the attacker made off with 807,260 ETC.

The report estimates the hacker reaped more than a 2,800% return for his efforts, having spent roughly 17.5 Bitcoins (BTC) worth $192,000 on renting hash power from Nicehash to execute the attack.