The Department of Justice doesn’t want lawyers tipping off their clients about investigations, a representative cautioned.

“We recommend that the private sector, when we are dealing with DeFi or really digital assets as a whole, to be cognizant, if the government sends you legal process when it comes to a subpoena or search warrant or of that nature to your customers, not to notify your customers because if the customer knows they’re being investigated — we call it an anti tip-off provision — perhaps they will move their assets or they will run,” said Sanjeev Bhasker, digital currency counsel with the DOJ.