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Crypto AML & compliance, in plain English
Guides for individual users, traders, and small businesses navigating sanctions screening, MiCA, the Travel Rule, and how to keep your funds clean.
How to Read a Crypto Risk Score Without Panicking
A risk score is a weighted probability, not a verdict. How the categories work, what thresholds mean, and when a high score is a false positive.
Read article →Accepting Crypto as a Small Business: A Compliance Starter Guide
Taking crypto payments without a compliance program is how small businesses end up with frozen funds. A practical minimum viable AML setup.
Read article →OFAC Sanctions List & Crypto: What Every Trader Needs to Know
The OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list now includes hundreds of crypto wallet addresses. Here's how it works, who's on it, and why it matters for individual users.
Read article →How to Check an Ethereum Address for Risk (and What ERC-20 Approvals Hide)
Screening an ETH address means more than balance and sanctions. Token approvals, contract interactions, and bridge history all carry risk.
Read article →How Blockchain Forensics Works: Clustering, Heuristics, and Attribution
Investigators trace crypto with address clustering, change-output heuristics, and off-chain attribution. Here's how the analysis actually works.
Read article →Crypto Mixers Explained: Why They're Flagged and What It Means for You
Tornado Cash, Wasabi, Samourai, Sinbad — how crypto mixers actually work, why exchanges and regulators flag them, and what counts as 'mixer exposure' on a risk score.
Read article →P2P Crypto Trading Safety Checklist for 2026
Peer-to-peer crypto trades carry counterparty risk that escrow alone doesn't solve. A practical pre-trade checklist including AML screening.
Read article →How to Check if a Bitcoin Address is Safe (Before You Send)
A 60-second guide to verifying that the Bitcoin address you're about to send to isn't linked to scams, sanctions, mixers, or stolen funds.
Read article →Why Did My Exchange Freeze My Deposit? Tainted Funds Explained
Exchanges freeze deposits when incoming funds trace back to sanctions, scams, mixers, or hacks. Here's why it happens and what you can realistically do.
Read article →How to Recover Stolen Cryptocurrency: A Realistic 2026 Playbook
Lost crypto to a scam, phishing attack, or exchange hack? Here's a step-by-step playbook for what to do in the first 24 hours and beyond — and what's actually recoverable.
Read article →Pig Butchering Scams: How the Money Actually Moves On-Chain
Pig-butchering (sha zhu pan) scams drained billions in crypto. Here's the on-chain laundering pattern and how to spot a scam deposit address before you fund it.
Read article →Crypto Travel Rule (FATF R.16) Explained: A 2026 Compliance Guide
The FATF Travel Rule requires VASPs to share originator and beneficiary data on crypto transfers. Here's how it works, what thresholds apply, and how to comply.
Read article →USDT TRC20 AML Check: How to Screen Tron Addresses Before You Accept Payment
USDT on Tron is the most-used settlement rail in crypto — and the most frozen. Here's how to run an AML check on a TRC20 address before accepting funds.
Read article →KYC vs KYT: What's the Difference and Why Both Matter
Know Your Customer (KYC) verifies who you're dealing with. Know Your Transaction (KYT) verifies what they're doing. Crypto compliance needs both.
Read article →MiCA License Explained: What Crypto Firms Need to Know in 2026
Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) is the EU's new crypto rulebook. Here's what the license covers, who needs one, and how compliance actually works.
Read article →What is AML in Crypto? A Plain-English Guide for 2026
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) in crypto explained: what it is, who has to comply, and how individual users can check addresses before they send.
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