简而言之 肯尼亚资本市场管理局正在寻求购买区块链分析平台来监管该国的虚拟资产市场。 该工具将监控比特币、以太坊和至少 20 个其他网络,以标记欺诈、洗钱、恐怖主义融资和逃避制裁的行为。 此举是在《2025 年虚拟资产服务提供商法案》之后出台的,该法案首次使肯尼亚的加密货币行业受到正式监管。 肯尼亚证券监管机构希望购买区块链监控系统,以帮助监管该国快速增长的加密货币市场,并准备根据一项新法律对虚拟资产公司进行许可和监管。 根据 Capital FM Africa 看到的招标文件,资本市场管理局正在寻求先进的区块链分析平台来监控数字资产交易、调查可疑活动并强制合规。该系统将实时和追溯地跟踪比特币、以太坊和至少 20 个其他区块链。 追踪加密货币流
该平台将为高风险钱包、大额转账、混币器、暗网链接地址和受制裁实体生成自动警报,并根据联合国和美国外国资产控制办公室制裁名单筛选交易。 它还将映射钱包之间的关系,重建交易时间表,跨链追踪资金,并分配与洗钱、勒索软件、欺诈和恐怖主义融资相关的风险评分。该监管机构表示,希望确定肯尼亚人最常使用的交易所,并发现为当地市场提供服务的未经许可的离岸平台。 所描述的功能反映了 Chainaanalysis、TRM Labs 和 Elliptic 等区块链情报公司销售的工具的功能,这些公司向世界各地的政府和监管机构销售类似的软件。 肯尼亚的新加密货币制度
此次购买将支持肯尼亚的虚拟资产服务提供商法案,该法案于 10 月由总统 William Ruto 签署成为法律,并于 11 月生效,为该国提供了第一个全面的加密框架。该法律将监管权划分给肯尼亚中央银行(涵盖支付、稳定币和托管钱包)和 CMA(监管交易所、经纪商、投资顾问和代币化平台),这是更广泛推动与金融行动特别工作组制定的反洗钱标准保持一致的一部分。 目前还没有公司获得许可。国家财政部于 3 月份发布了法规草案,现有运营商必须在 2026 年 11 月之前遵守。 肯尼亚是非洲最大的加密货币市场之一。根据 Chainalysis 的数据,2024 年 7 月至 2025 年 6 月期间,居民收到了约 190 亿美元的加密货币,该国在非洲大陆排名第四,估计有超过 600 万肯尼亚人使用数字资产,其中大部分是通过非正式的点对点渠道使用的。
肯尼亚并不是唯一一个寻求此类工具的国家。在美国,移民和海关执法局去年开始从 TRM Labs 和 Chainaanalysis 购买取证软件,这两家公司已经与 FBI、DEA 和 IRS 签订了合同,而英国税务机关 HMRC 则委托 TRM Labs 追踪可疑交易。 每日简报时事通讯 每天从当前的热门新闻报道以及原创专题、播客、视频等开始。
In brief
Kenya's Capital Markets Authority is seeking to buy a blockchain analytics platform to police the country's virtual assets market.
The tool would monitor Bitcoin, Ethereum, and at least 20 other networks to flag fraud, money laundering, terrorism financing, and sanctions evasion.
The move follows the Virtual Assets Service Providers Act of 2025, which brought Kenya's crypto sector under formal regulation for the first time.
Kenya's securities regulator wants to buy a blockchain surveillance system to help police the country's fast-growing crypto market, as it prepares to license and supervise virtual asset firms under a new law.
The Capital Markets Authority is seeking an advanced blockchain analytics platform to monitor digital asset transactions, investigate suspicious activity, and enforce compliance, according to tender documents seen by Capital FM Africa. The system would track Bitcoin, Ethereum, and at least 20 other blockchains, both in real time and retrospectively.
Tracking crypto flows
The platform would generate automated alerts for high-risk wallets, large transfers, coin mixers, darknet-linked addresses, and sanctioned entities, and screen transactions against United Nations and U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions lists.
It would also map relationships between wallets, reconstruct transaction timelines, trace funds across chains, and assign risk scores tied to money laundering, ransomware, fraud, and terrorism financing. The regulator said it wants to identify the exchanges most used by Kenyans and detect unlicensed offshore platforms serving the local market.
The described capabilities mirror those of tools sold by blockchain intelligence firms such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Elliptic, which market similar software to governments and regulators worldwide.
Kenya's new crypto regime
The purchase would support Kenya's Virtual Assets Service Providers Act, which President William Ruto signed into law in October and which took effect in November, giving the country its first comprehensive crypto framework. The law splits oversight between the Central Bank of Kenya, covering payments, stablecoins, and custodial wallets, and the CMA, which regulates exchanges, brokers, investment advisers, and tokenization platforms, part of a broader push to align with anti-money-laundering standards set by the Financial Action Task Force.
No firms have been licensed yet. The National Treasury published draft regulations in March, and existing operators have until November 2026 to comply.
Kenya is one of Africa's largest crypto markets. Residents received about $19 billion in crypto between July 2024 and June 2025, ranking the country fourth on the continent, according to Chainalysis, and more than six million Kenyans are estimated to use digital assets, much of it through informal, peer-to-peer channels.
Kenya is far from alone in reaching for such tools. In the U.S., Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved last year to buy forensics software from both TRM Labs and Chainalysis, which already hold contracts with the FBI, the DEA, and the IRS, while Britain's tax authority, HMRC, has brought on TRM Labs to trace suspect transactions.
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