# Solidus Labs

> Solidus Labs is a New York-based crypto-native risk monitoring and market surveillance company founded in 2018 by former Goldman Sachs engineers. Its flagship HALO platform combines trade surveillance, transaction monitoring and threat intelligence to help crypto exchanges, brokers, custodians, stablecoin issuers and regulators detect market manipulation, fraud and money laundering across onchain and offchain markets. HALO monitors over one trillion events daily, deploys 50+ crypto-native abuse typologies, and in 2025 was selected by the EU's ESMA as a trade surveillance provider under MiCA.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Asaf Meir (Co-founder & CEO), Chen Arad (Co-founder), Praveen Kumar (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~84 employees
- **Products:** HALO, Trade Surveillance, Transaction Monitoring, Stablecoin & Token Monitoring, Agentic-Based Compliance
- **Notable:** Selected by the EU's ESMA as a trade surveillance provider under MiCA (2025)., HALO monitors over one trillion events per day., Deploys 50+ proprietary crypto-native market abuse typologies.

## Products & services

- **HALO** — A crypto-native market integrity hub combining detection technology, agentic automation and intelligent case management across the 'triple T' pillars: trade surveillance, transaction monitoring and threat intelligence.
- **Trade Surveillance** — Detects crypto-native market manipulation such as wash trading, spoofing, pump-and-dumps and insider trading across venues and asset classes.
- **Transaction Monitoring** — AML and risk monitoring that fuses onchain and offchain data to flag illicit flows, sanctioned addresses and suspicious activity.
- **Stablecoin & Token Monitoring** — Monitors token listings, smart-contract scams and stablecoin activity, including rug pull and token-scam detection.
- **Agentic-Based Compliance** — AI agents that automate alert triage, investigations and case management to reduce alert fatigue and speed decisions.
- **Professional Services** — Regulatory advisory, threshold tuning and implementation support for CASPs, exchanges and regulators.

## Achievements

- Selected by the EU's ESMA as a trade surveillance provider under MiCA (2025).
- HALO monitors over one trillion events per day.
- Deploys 50+ proprietary crypto-native market abuse typologies.
- Cited as protecting 25M+ retail and institutional investors across 150+ markets.
- Raised roughly $86M total across Seed through Series B from investors including GSR, Evolution Equity Partners and Liberty City Ventures.
- Recruited former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo and former SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes as advisors.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Selected by ESMA as a trade surveillance provider under MiCA, supporting national competent authorities across the EEA.
- **2025-02** — Brought its Digital Asset Compliance & Market Integrity Summit to Amsterdam following early MiCA implementation.
- **2025** — Unveiled agentic-based compliance, using AI agents to automate trade surveillance operations.
- **2024-11** — One Trading partnered with Solidus Labs for institutional-grade MiCAR readiness.

## Links

- Website: https://soliduslabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/soliduslabs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Solidus_Labs
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/soliduslabs

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Last updated: 2026-07-18