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THORChain vs Tornado Cash: Which Gets Your Wallet Flagged?
THORChain moved about $1 billion of the Bybit hack through its cross-chain vaults in ten days and has never been sanctioned. Tornado Cash has - and still gets caught by screening tools that THORChain slips past.
AML · 2026-10-05 · 5 min readWhat Is a KYC Mule? A Verified Account Doesn't Mean a Clean Wallet
Verified doesn't mean controlled by the same person who opened the account. Here is how a KYC mule scheme works, what the AudiA6 takedown showed, and why wallet screening catches what onboarding checks miss.
Sanctions · 2026-10-04 · 5 min readWhy 87% of Iran's Sanctioned Crypto Wallets Use USDT
A Senate subcommittee report found 87% of 757 Iran-linked sanctioned wallets transacted mostly in USDT. Here's what the numbers show, and why a live blacklist read matters more than the sanctions list alone.
data report · 2026-10-03 · 6 min read780 OFAC-Sanctioned Crypto Addresses: Bitcoin Beats Ethereum 5 to 1
Bitcoin carries 513 of the 780 addresses on OFAC's crypto sanctions list, 65.8% of the total, dwarfing Ethereum's 97 and edging out Tron's 127.
Stolen Funds · 2026-10-02 · 5 min readDeepfake Crypto Investment Scam: How to Check the Wallet First
Celebrity deepfake videos have pushed victims to send six and seven figures to fake crypto platforms in 2026. Here's how to check the receiving wallet before you send anything.
dao governance · 2026-10-01 · 6 min read6-Point Checklist Before You Add a New DAO Multisig Signer
A 6-step checklist for DAOs: screen a signer candidate's wallet for sanctions, mixer, and stolen-funds exposure before a governance vote grants them treasury access.
OFAC · 2026-10-01 · 3 min readSeven TCO-Linked Individuals Added to OFAC's Crypto Sanctions List
Treasury's October 1, 2026 SDN update adds seven Tron addresses, each linked to one individually sanctioned person under the SDGT and TCO programs - bringing the tracked crypto-address count to 1,047.
What Is · 2026-09-30 · 5 min readWhy Wallet Clustering Flags Addresses That Never Touched a Scam
Exchanges don't score one address at a time. They group every address an owner controls first, and that is why a wallet that never touched a scam can still fail a check.
multichain screening · 2026-09-29 · 6 min readEthereum vs Layer-2 Wallets: Why One Address Gets Two Risk Scores
An EVM address is identical on every chain, but the transaction history behind it isn't. Here's why a wallet can screen clean on Ethereum and flagged on Arbitrum or Base, and when checking mainnet alone is actually enough.
Bitget hack · 2026-09-28 · 5 min readWhat Happens If Bitget's Stolen $351M Reaches Your Wallet?
Bitget's September 2026 breach is 2026's largest exchange hack, and TRM Labs and Elliptic both link it to the same North Korean group behind the Bybit theft. Here's how the stolen funds spread to wallets that never touched the intrusion.