Binance has partnered with the nonprofit STOP THE TRAFFIK to strengthen its ability to identify and investigate cryptocurrency activity connected to human trafficking and child exploitation.

The crypto exchange said Thursday that the collaboration will provide it with specialized intelligence, training and insights from the UK group's Centre for Intelligence-Led Prevention. Binance said the support is intended to help detect emerging criminal typologies and reinforce investigations into illicit activity associated with human trafficking.

The partnership will also involve intelligence sharing and staff training designed to improve Binance's compliance functions and financial crime detection capabilities. The initiative builds on Binance's in-house investigations team, which has previously cooperated with law enforcement agencies globally on cases involving ransomware, scams, and other blockchain-based financial crime.

The announcement comes amid broader attention to the use of digital assets in trafficking-related crime. Cryptocurrency payments to suspected human trafficking syndicates increased 85% in 2025, with hundreds of millions of transactions traced on public blockchains, according to a new report by Chainalysis. While digital assets represent a small fraction of overall financial flows tied to trafficking, the transparency of public blockchains has increasingly allowed investigators to trace illicit transactions that would be difficult to follow through traditional banking channels.

Human trafficking remains a major global criminal economy. The 2022 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery estimated that 49.6 million people were living in modern slavery in 2021. The NASDAQ 2026 Global Financial Crime Report estimated that human trafficking generated about $528.5 billion in illicit proceeds in 2025.

Editor's note: Updated at 16:00 UTC on July 23 to add Chainalysis data.