2025 • Creator & Maintainer

Blokbustr

Trace the untraceable.

3

chains traced (BTC, EVM, Solana)

7

GitHub stars

Overview

Blokbustr is a blockchain analysis toolkit that traces cryptocurrency transactions through mixing services, multiple hops, and obfuscation techniques. It's designed for security researchers, compliance teams, and anyone who needs to follow the money on public blockchains.

The Problem

While blockchain transactions are public, they're far from transparent. Bad actors use mixing services, chain-hopping, and complex transaction patterns to obscure fund flows. Existing tools either couldn't handle the complexity or required expensive enterprise licenses.

Tech Stack

TypeScriptSvelteKitAWSRedis

The Approach

1

Three chains, one interface

Bitcoin's UTXO model, EVM's account model, and Solana's program accounts don't agree on what a transaction is. `packages/providers` normalizes all three behind one interface, with separate history and subscription paths per chain since backfilling and live-following have different failure modes.

2

Queue-driven, not request-driven

The `watcher` service subscribes to chain events and pushes to SQS. The `explorer` consumes and follows transaction graphs. They scale independently because a chain reorg shouldn't block the rest of the pipeline. Redis for the hot cache, LocalStack so the whole thing runs under `docker-compose` without an AWS bill.

Outcomes

  • Open-sourced for the security research community

Role

Creator & Maintainer

Duration

Jan to May 2025

Year

2025

Stack

4 technologies