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CBI — Certified Blockchain Investigator · Final Exam

Professional-tier blockchain forensics: address clustering, transaction tracing, cross-chain bridges, mixer/tumbler typologies, DeFi exploit patterns, NFT wash trading and attribution that survives prosecutorial review.

100 scenario-based multiple-choice questions · pass mark 80/100 (80%). Every question has exactly one best-supported answer; distractors are intentionally plausible. Retakes allowed — your highest score counts. Diploma auto-issued to your account name on pass.

Doctrine you are expected to apply

  • UTXO vs account-based ledger reasoning; common-input-ownership and change heuristics.
  • Cross-chain laundering: bridges, swaps, wrapped assets, peel chains.
  • Mixer/tumbler typologies (CoinJoin, Tornado-style pools) and statistical de-mixing limits.
  • Smart-contract exploitation, flash-loan attacks, MEV and rug-pull patterns.
  • Attribution chain: on-chain trace → exchange touchpoint → KYC subpoena → identified entity.

Authority sources behind the exam

  • Chainalysis Crypto Crime Reports & investigation playbooks.
  • TRM Labs Illicit Finance reports.
  • Elliptic typology reports.
  • U.S. DOJ Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework.
  • FATF Updated Guidance on Virtual Assets and VASPs.

Before you begin

  • Allow 60–90 minutes of uninterrupted, focused time.
  • Read every stem carefully — the difficulty is in the discrimination between defensible options, not in trick wording.
  • When two options look correct, pick the one most directly supported by the evidence/method described in the stem.
  • CBI is a professional credential — answer as a working analyst would write into a report under their own name.

What this exam covers

100 questions drawn from the 6 chapters of the CBI Field Manual — Blockchain Investigation & Asset Tracing. Pass mark 80%. Read the study book first. Then try the free practice exam with answers.

  1. Chapter 1: Chain Doctrine & Investigative Posture

    Establishes what blockchain evidence is and is not, the analyst's posture toward it, and the cycle every case runs through.

    • What Blockchain Evidence Is — And Is Not
    • The Investigation Cycle (On-Chain Variant)
    • Source-Of-Truth Hierarchy
    • Confidence, Caveats & Honest Failure
    • Legal & Ethical Boundaries
  2. Chapter 2: UTXO Chains — Bitcoin And Family

    How tracing actually works on UTXO chains. Bitcoin is the doctrinal model; the same rules apply with minor variation to its forks and to most other UTXO designs.

    • UTXO Model & Why It Matters For Tracing
    • Co-Spend Heuristic
    • Change Identification Heuristics
    • Coinjoin, PayJoin, And Privacy Tooling
    • Bitcoin-Family Variants & Forks
  3. Chapter 3: Account Chains — Ethereum, EVM & Beyond

    How tracing changes when the model is accounts and smart contracts rather than UTXOs.

    • Externally Owned Accounts vs Contract Accounts
    • Internal Transfers, Logs & Event Decoding
    • Stablecoins, Token Standards & Native Asset Distinction
    • Account Clustering Heuristics
    • Non-EVM Account Chains — Solana, Tron, Others
  4. Chapter 4: Bridges, Mixers & Cross-Chain Tracing

    How value moves between chains, how privacy infrastructure interrupts a trace, and how a disciplined analyst recovers a defensible chain of custody across those hops.

    • Bridge Architectures & Tracing Implications
    • Reconstructing A Bridge Hop
    • Mixers — Tornado-Class, Centralized & Tumbler Services
    • Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks & Stolen-Funds Tracing
    • DEX Aggregators, MEV Bots & Wash-Sale Noise
  5. Chapter 5: Privacy Coins, Lightning & Opaque Surfaces

    What you can and cannot do when the chain is designed to defeat tracing. Monero is the doctrinal case; Lightning and shielded pools follow.

    • Monero — Why The Surface Is Hardened
    • Off-Chain & Layer-2 Surfaces — Lightning, Rollups
    • Shielded Pools — Zcash And Family
    • Operational Recovery Despite Opaque Surfaces
  6. Chapter 6: Attribution, Freezes & Reporting

    How CBI analysts convert a clean on-chain trace into actionable disposition — exchange freezes, stablecoin blacklisting, law-enforcement product and the written report that survives challenge.

    • Exchange & VASP Attribution
    • Freezes & Seizures — Stablecoin Issuer Route
    • CEX Freezes & Recovery Pathways
    • Sanctions, OFAC & High-Risk Address Lists
    • Writing The Trace Report — BLUF, Flow, Evidence Appendix
    • Reproducibility & Re-Run Discipline
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Authoritative sources

Independent primary sources used to check and corroborate the guidance on this page.

Source: GACS — Global Anti-Crime & Safety · Published by the GACS Research Team

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