The Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department and Wenzhou Public Security Bureau jointly released a technical report, revealing the domestic police's case-handling process for Crypto-related cases. Overall, it’s pretty solid. Sometimes when you read media reports, they make cross-chain tracking sound way too magical, as if you just input an address and it can 100% automatically reconstruct the entire universe’s fund flow. It’s really not that advanced. Most real Crypto law enforcement in China still relies on the same old three methods: arresting people, seizing devices, and checking transaction records. Phones, computers, hard drives, chat logs, notes, screenshots, cloud drives, exchange apps, email verification codes, OTC conversations—basically, as long as they can find seed phrases, private keys, wallet addresses, or exchange accounts, many cases are already halfway solved. And enforcement doesn’t even need to perfectly crack every step. As long as they can piece together an on-chain path, timestamps, transaction amounts, and device evidence into a closed loop, that’s usually enough. This also highlights a common misunderstanding about Crypto anonymity. In reality, the hardest part isn’t the investigation—it’s what comes after. Crypto folks are always shouting "Not your keys, not your coins," but the reality is: Not your phone, not your privacy. Image credit: @BlockTempo