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There is a difference between running a transaction through a platform and actually understanding what you are looking at. This course closes that gap with direct instructor guidance at every step. Blockchain Forensics Foundations is a practitioner-led course built around a five-step investigative framework: Identify, Trace, Interpret, Validate, Report. You will move through real on-chain case studies Glupteba, Abracadabra, DAO governance attacks, multi-hop laundering with your instructor walking alongside you, not just narrating slides. This is not a self-study video library. It is a structured, supported learning experience with regular touchpoints, live Q&A sessions, community discussion, and direct access to your instructor throughout the course.

Course Blockchain Forensics Foundations

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10 Chapters

103 Lessons

About the course

What separates a finding from a guess? Every day, billions of dollars move across public blockchains — visible to anyone, interpretable by almost no one. Law enforcement, compliance teams, and financial crime analysts are increasingly expected to read on-chain data, flag anomalous behavior, and produce findings that hold up under scrutiny. Most have never been formally trained to do it. This course changes that. Blockchain Analysis Foundations walks you through a five-step investigative framework: Identify, Trace, Interpret, Validate, Report all built around one core discipline: the difference between what you can observe and what you can conclude. Every module enforces that standard. Every case study demands it. You will work through real on-chain data, including the Glupteba botnet Bitcoin C2 channels, the Abracadabra DeFi exploit, DAO governance manipulation patterns, and multi-hop laundering flows. You will not just be shown what happened, you will be shown how to see it, how to document it, and how to explain it to someone who wasn't there. By the end of this course, you will know how to build a baseline, recognize when something deviates from it, and write a flag that is defensible — not just dramatic.

Dan Morrill

Has been working in Blockchain nearly since its inception with the launch of Bitcoin, and has recently, over the last two years, been working in AI.

Curriculum

10 Chapters · 103 Lessons

1
Course Overview
2
A Quick Overview of the Blockchain
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  What is the Blockchain?
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  The Three Traceable Properties
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  How Transactions Work
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  The Investigative Mindset
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  Governing Standards for Investigations
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  Blockchain Networks
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  The Role of AI in Blockchain Investigations
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  Workforce Alignment
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  Section Lab Aperture Finance Exploit
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  Lab Walkthrough
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  Chapter Lab Aperture Exploit
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  Chapter Summary
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The Identify Step
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  What is the Identify Step
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  The Four Dimensions of Scope
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  Known, Unknown and Assumed
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  Target Identification in Practice
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  Demo Labels
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  Scope Failures and how to Spot Them
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  The Investigation Initiation Checklist
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  Case Analysis: The Abracadabra Exploits
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  The Abracadabra Exploit Student Worksheet
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  Operation Sleepy Duck
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  Operation Sleepy Duck Student Worksheet
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  Chapter Summary
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The Trace Step
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  CIO Change Heuristics
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  Transaction Flow
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  Simple Flow Patterns
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  Op Return Codes
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  Reading Op Return Codes
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  Encrypted Payloads
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  Contracts
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  Following Token Value Types
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  Building Transaction Graphs
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  Bridges
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  Tracing Boundaries
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  Step Documentation Discipline
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  Lab: One Step Back, One Step Forward
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  Student Worksheet for the Lab One Step Back, One Step Forward
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  Chapter Summary
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The Explain Step
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  Overview
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  From Data to Meaning
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  Pattern Meaning
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  Audience Adaptive Writing
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  Assumption Discipline
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  Ambiguity as a Professional Output
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  Document Standards
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  Lab - The Three Sentence Test
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  Working on the Capstone Section 3
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  Chapter Summary
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The Evaluate Step
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  Chapter Introduction
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  Defining "Normal"
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  Anomaly Indicators
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  Risk Signals
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  Anomalous vs Malicious
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  Baseline Building
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  Evidence Handling
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  Security Evaluation
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  DAO's
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  Section Lab: Capstone Work
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The Report Step
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  The Reporting Discipline
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  The Anatomy of a Finding
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  Writing a SAR Suspicious Activity Report
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  Writing for LEO/Law Enforcement
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  Writing for Executive Leadership
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  Writing for a Public Audience
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  The Legal Layer
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  The Section Lab
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  Chapter Summary
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Systems in the Real World
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  Exchanges
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  DeFi Systems
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  Smart Contract Patterns
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  DAO Governance
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  Investigation Techniques
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  Cross Chain Systems
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  Mixers
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  NFT Systems
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  Mapping Systems in a Multi-hop Interaction
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  KELP DAO
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  KELP DAO project
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  Blockchain Entities
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  Chapter Summary
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Why Systems Fail
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  Misconfiguration
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  Design Flaws
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  Bad Assumptions
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  Human Error
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  Cascade Failure
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  OSFEE
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  Failure Analysis
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  Audits
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  Section Project
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  Section Project Turn In
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  Chapter Summary
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Capstone
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  oPCheesesauce
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  OpCheesesauceReport
3. (Included in full purchase)
  Submit your Capstone here!

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Most blockchain analysis training teaches you to use tools. This course teaches you to think.

About the course

Dan Morrill

Curriculum

Course Overview

A Quick Overview of the Blockchain

The Identify Step

The Trace Step

The Explain Step

The Evaluate Step

The Report Step

Systems in the Real World

Why Systems Fail

Capstone

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