reduce anonymity of transactions in blockchains like Bitcoin, Ether, Omni, Dash and Monero.
Interesting choice of words. At cointelegraph is even more interesting: "partially reducing anonymity". This may mean a lot or nothing.
I am
very curious what they did about Monero and I mean real life cases, not some unique in-lab user cases that can be handled by the "prototype".
You are right! The lab analysis are very different from a real life cases. And such analysis take so much time. Example: if you launder less than $100k - you are not very interesting fish to the goverment, cause they will spend big money on investigation