Judicial Standards of Evidence in Crypto Cases: Limits of On-Chain Analytics Admissibility and Risks of Misattribution
This report provides a critical analysis of evidentiary standards in digital asset cases, focusing on the gap between technical hypotheses and legal facts. The research exposes the risks of using probabilistic on-chain analytics models as the foundation for criminal charges, leading to the erosion of the presumption of innocence. The author details the limitations of address clustering methods and the problems of crypto-wallet attribution, where errors by analytical firms transform into judicial mistakes. Special emphasis is placed on the shift of the burden of proof to the defense and the need to develop unified international standards for verifying digital evidence to ensure the right to a fair trial
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