Screening & Monitoring
How exchanges and VASPs screen sanctions lists, monitor transactions, and detect fraud on-chain. Current coverage runs to 4 guides, including Blockchain Analytics, Fraud Detection and Sanctions Screening.
Each guide here is written to stand alone, so start with the headline closest to the problem in front of you rather than reading the page top to bottom.
Every page below is compiled from vendor documentation and dated published sources, and names those sources at the foot of the article. Where a spec, a price, or a version number matters, check it against the original — the link is there for exactly that.
- Blockchain Analytics:
- Blockchain analytics is the layer of a crypto compliance program that turns raw public-ledger data into names, categories, and risk signals a human can
- Fraud Detection:
- Fraud and money laundering get lumped together in compliance budgets, but they are different problems with different clocks. Laundering is about dirty
- Sanctions Screening:
- Sanctions compliance is the one obligation in crypto where the regulator does not care about your intent. OFAC administers a strict-liability regime: if
- Transaction Monitoring:
- Every exchange eventually learns the same lesson: onboarding controls decide who gets in, but transaction monitoring decides what you catch once they are
