May 5, 2026
Lukka, the leading institutional digital asset data and software provider, today announced its collaboration with Blockstream, a Bitcoin infrastructure provider, to extend institutional-grade KYC and AML capabilities into Bitcoin-based financial networks.
As Bitcoin evolves from a settlement layer into a foundation for broader financial infrastructure, institutions face a critical challenge: how to meet global compliance standards in systems originally designed without traditional intermediaries.
Lukka is addressing this gap by bringing its compliance, data, and entity intelligence capabilities into Bitcoin-native environments–enabling institutions to participate with the confidence, transparency, and control required in regulated financial markets.
Extending Institutional-Grade Compliance to Bitcoin-Native Systems
The expansion of financial activity onto Bitcoin infrastructure introduces new complexity around counterparty risk, sanctions exposure, and regulatory reporting. Traditional compliance models were not built for decentralized or pseudonymous systems.
Lukka’s platform transforms fragmented on- and off-chain activity into audit-ready intelligence–supporting AML monitoring, sanctions screening, and entity-level risk assessment across digital asset ecosystems..
Through this collaboration, Lukka is positioned to support:
- Entity-level attribution and counterparty intelligence across Bitcoin-based networks
- Integration of AML and sanctions screening into emerging financial infrastructure
- Enhanced visibility into transaction flows and risk exposure
Institutional-Scale Attribution and Risk Intelligence
Lukka’s compliance and risk capabilities are powered by a comprehensive attribution dataset designed to bring clarity to blockchain-based financial activity.
Built on a foundation of over 1 billion labeled blockchain addresses and more than 50,000 entities across 100+ blockchains, Lukka’s dataset delivers deep visibility into the participants and behaviors underlying digital asset transactions.
This intelligence spans hundreds of risk indicators, including sanctions exposure, fraud, exploit activity, darknet marketplaces, and obfuscation services—enabling institutions to identify, assess, and contextualize risk across counterparties and transaction flows.
By combining large-scale address attribution with structured entity-level data, Lukka provides the foundation for more informed compliance decisions, enhanced due diligence, and institution-ready risk management across digital asset ecosystems.
Executive Commentary
“As Bitcoin infrastructure continues to expand into institutional financial markets, the need for trusted compliance, risk, and data infrastructure becomes increasingly important. Institutions need clear visibility into who they are transacting with, where risk exists, and how activity can be monitored in a regulator-aligned way. Lukka’s data and compliance infrastructure is designed to turn complex blockchain activity into actionable, audit-ready intelligence, including entity-level attribution, AML monitoring, and greater transparency across Bitcoin-native financial networks. Our collaboration with Blockstream is an important step in supporting institutional participation across this evolving ecosystem.” – Dan Huscher, COO and Head of Product, Lukka
“Bitcoin infrastructure has reached a point where institutions are ready to move beyond exploration and begin integrating it into real financial workflows, but that requires both advanced technology solutions and clear regulatory alignment,” said Michael Minkevich, COO and President of Blockstream. “Blockstream provides the underlying infrastructure for custody, tokenization, and financial applications, utilizing the Liquid Network, which enables faster, more confidential transactions and the issuance of digital assets. Combined with Lukka’s compliance, risk, and data capabilities, this partnership will give our clients a clear, institution-ready path to securely and confidently integrate Bitcoin-based financial infrastructure into their existing systems.”
Bridging Open Networks and Institutional Requirements
Bitcoin’s design enables open, permissionless financial systems—but institutions require defined controls, risk frameworks, and regulatory alignment to operate at scale.
This creates a structural gap:
- Open networks prioritize decentralization
- Institutions require accountability and oversight
Lukka bridges this gap by connecting blockchain activity with real-world entity intelligence, compliance data, and audit-ready reporting–enabling institutions to operate within Bitcoin-based systems without sacrificing regulatory requirements.
Powering the Next Phase of Bitcoin-Based Finance
As Bitcoin infrastructure expands to support payments, capital markets, and tokenized financial products, compliance and data infrastructure become foundational–not optional.
Lukka’s role in this collaboration reflects a broader shift across the industry:
- From pseudonymous activity to entity-aware financial systems
- From reactive compliance to embedded, pre-transaction risk controls
- From fragmented data to unified, audit-ready infrastructure
By extending institutional-grade compliance capabilities into Bitcoin-native environments, Lukka is helping enable the next phase of adoption–where open networks and regulated finance converge.
About Blockstream
Blockstream is the world’s premier developer of blockchain infrastructure built on the Bitcoin standard. Founded in 2014 by Adam Back, the company delivers enterprise-grade infrastructure across Bitcoin’s full technology stack, including secure self-custody, Layer 2 networks, tokenization, and high-assurance smart contracting through Simplicity. Its Liquid Network provides fast and confidential settlement for institutions, securing more than $5 billion in total value. Through its research and engineering teams, Blockstream continues to advance Bitcoin’s evolution through innovations in scalability, security, and programmability, supporting the next generation of quantum resistant global financial infrastructure.
Learn more at blockstream.com.
About Lukka
Founded in 2014, Lukka provides enterprise blockchain data and software solutions to financial institutions, exchanges, fund administrators, and government agencies. Its platform transforms raw on- and off-chain activity into audit-ready intelligence–powering accounting, compliance, risk, and reporting workflows across the digital asset ecosystem.
Lukka operates under AICPA SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II frameworks, delivering institutional-grade data and infrastructure for the next generation of finance.
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