Nonetheless going through a courtroom assault within the U.S. for allegedly facilitating cash laundering, BitMex is attempting to indicate regulators that it is attempting. 

On Jan. 12, the legally besieged crypto change launched a blog post promoting additional work with blockchain analytics agency Chainalysis. BitMex mentioned its purpose was “to determine, examine, and cease illicit transactions.”

Chainalysis is called a go-to resolution for presidency entities seeking to observe crypto transactions. The agency has been instrumental to the Division of Justice’s seizures of cryptocurrency, together with over $1 billion in Bitcoin and its offshoots from an unnamed Silk Highway hacker, in addition to from a community of terrorist funding surrounding a crypto change in Idlib, Syria. It’s this popularity for work with governments that BitMex is probably going attempting to use.

The transfer could also be too little, too late. BitMex was theoretically working with Chainalysis even when the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee and DoJ filed civil and legal complaints towards the crypto change, its associates and executives originally of October. 

On the identical day because the weblog publish, BitMex noticed the choose within the CFTC case approve the change’s request to place off a response date, from Jan. 15 to Feb. 12. The CFTC accuses BitMex of intentionally providing unregistered derivatives gross sales to U.S. retail buyers, which might end in fines if proved. The DoJ’s case goes one step additional, alleging that the agency relied on cash laundering as a part of its enterprise mannequin, which might result in jail time for these at BitMex’s helm.

There’s little argument that U.S. individuals did, in reality, entry BitMex’s derivatives buying and selling, however the CFTC case will seemingly hinge on the idea of due diligence in vetting consumer entry. It seems to be like BitMex is utilizing its further time to shore up its present compliance measures. Simply final week, the agency introduced that it had verified 100% of customers. 

Neither BitMex nor Chainalysis had responded to Cointelegraph’s request for remark as of publication.