MultiHopper, the programmable privacy routing protocol for digital assets, today announced a partnership with TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company trusted by leading financial institutions, crypto businesses, governments and public sector agencies.
Through the partnership, TRM’s risk intelligence in MultiHopper’s routing architecture helps prevent OFAC-sanctioned, stolen, illicit, high-risk and otherwise restricted funds from using MultiHopper’s rails.
The partnership introduces a new approach to regulatory-ready private programmable onchain routing: digital asset movement with privacy protections and compliance controls built directly into the network architecture. The solution is live today on Solana.
Legacy Privacy Systems and Regulatory Concerns
Legacy privacy systems such as mixers, tumblers and pooled privacy environments have repeatedly created regulatory concerns because sanctioned, stolen or illicit funds could enter a shared privacy system and benefit from its anonymity set. Other privacy solutions have attempted to address these concerns through proof-of-innocence mechanisms, but many still rely on shared privacy environments where compliance assurances are layered around existing structures.
MultiHopper’s Architecture
MultiHopper is designed without commingled liquidity, shielded pools or offchain components. Rather than relying on complex privacy systems that can introduce scalability and operational challenges, MultiHopper focuses on propriatary programmable routing infrastructure that is non-custodial, permissionless and fully onchain.
The architecture is designed to screen transfers against TRM intelligence and block identified high-risk funds before they can enter or leave the rails. Each transfer is processed independently, helping prevent the commingling of assets and reducing the risk profile commonly associated with traditional privacy systems.
“Situations involving mixers and tumblers occurred because privacy infrastructure allowed bad actors and legitimate users to operate within the same privacy environment,” said Enigma, CEO and Founder of MultiHopper and EnigmaFund Venture Capital. “MultiHopper is compliance-gated private programmable routing. Privacy should protect legitimate users, not sanctioned actors, stolen funds or illicit finance.”
Embedded Compliance Intelligence
Most crypto compliance today exists outside the protocol, within exchanges, custodians, applications and operational processes. MultiHopper has embedded compliance intelligence directly into the routing layer itself.
For developers, wallets, protocols, and institutions this provides APIs delivering a private and programmable routing layer intended to reduce public exposure while helping defend against sanctioned addresses, stolen funds and illicit proceeds. For AI agents, it enables programmable payment rails with privacy and compliance designed into the routing process.
“More than $21 trillion in payments move through SWIFT every day. Private, secure and compliant financial rails are the standard in traditional finance,” added Enigma. “For similar scale to emerge in digital assets, the industry needs infrastructure that combines privacy with compliance. TRM provides the intelligence layer that helps us enforce that standard.”
About MultiHopper
MultiHopper is compliant programmable onchain privacy routing infrastructure for digital assets. It enables non-custodial, permissionless routing without mixers, tumblers, shielded pools, commingled liquidity or private blockchains. MultiHopper is building regulatory-ready private programmable money infrastructure for developers, AI agents, wallets, protocols and institutions.
About TRM Labs
TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence solutions that help organizations detect, investigate and disrupt crypto-related financial crime. Its platform supports compliance, investigations, wallet screening, transaction monitoring and blockchain intelligence for crypto businesses, financial institutions and public sector agencies.
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