TRM Labs

TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related fraud, money laundering, and sanctions violations. Its public API surface includes the TRM Sanctions API for screening blockchain addresses against sanctions lists, and the Chainabuse Public API (community-sourced scam reporting) for contributing, retrieving, and looking up reports of malicious addresses, tokens, transactions, and domains. Both APIs use HTTP Basic authentication and are documented at docs.trmlabs.com.

TRM Labs publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Reports API, Sanctions API, and Sanctions Screening API. Tagged areas include Company, Crypto, Blockchain, Compliance, and Sanctions.

TRM Labs’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 20 more developer resources.

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48.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

2 APIs

Company Crypto Blockchain Compliance Sanctions Fraud Anti-Money Laundering Blockchain Intelligence

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scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

Composite quality — 48.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 7.9 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: trm-labs
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/trm-labs.png
name: TRM Labs
description: TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government
  agencies detect and investigate crypto-related fraud, money laundering, and sanctions violations. Its public API surface
  includes the TRM Sanctions API for screening blockchain addresses against sanctions lists, and the Chainabuse Public API
  (community-sourced scam reporting) for contributing, retrieving, and looking up reports of malicious addresses, tokens,
  transactions, and domains. Both APIs use HTTP Basic authentication and are documented at docs.trmlabs.com.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trm-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
- initialized-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Crypto
- Blockchain
- Compliance
- Sanctions
- Fraud
- Anti-Money Laundering
- Blockchain Intelligence
apis:
- aid: trm-labs:trm-labs-reports-api
  name: TRM Labs Reports API
  description: Contribute, retrieve, and look up scam reports.
  humanURL: https://docs.trmlabs.com/guides/sanctions/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.trmlabs.com
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trm-labs-reports-api-openapi.yml
- aid: trm-labs:trm-labs-sanctions-api
  name: TRM Labs Sanctions API
  description: Check whether an address is sanctioned.
  humanURL: https://docs.trmlabs.com/guides/sanctions/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.trmlabs.com
  tags:
  - Sanctions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trm-labs-sanctions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: trm-labs:trm-labs-sanctions-screening-api
  name: TRM Labs Sanctions Screening API
  description: The Sanctions Screening API from TRM Labs — 1 operation(s) for sanctions screening.
  humanURL: https://docs.trmlabs.com/guides/sanctions/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.trmlabs.com
  tags:
  - Sanctions Screening
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trm-labs-sanctions-screening-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/trm-labs-chainabuse-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/trm-labs-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/trm-labs-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.trmlabs.com/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/trm-labs-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.trmlabs.com/responsible-disclosure
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/trm-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/trm-labs-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/trm-labs-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/trm-labs-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/trm-labs-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/trm-labs-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.trmlabs.com
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/trm-labs-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/trm-labs-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/trm-labs-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/trm-labs-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.trmlabs.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.trmlabs.com/guides/chainabuse/welcome-to-chainabuse-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.trmlabs.com/guides/chainabuse/getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.trmlabs.com/guides/chainabuse/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.trmlabs.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/trmlabs
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.trmlabs.com/privacy-policy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.trmlabs.com/products/sanctions
- type: Website
  url: https://www.trmlabs.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: local-v1

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TRM Labs

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APIs 3

TRM Labs Reports API

TRM Labs Sanctions API

TRM Labs Sanctions Screening API

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Chainabuse Public Reports API

Chainabuse Public Reports Sanctions API

Chainabuse Public Reports Sanctions Screening API

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