A pre-deposit crypto check screens your wallet for sanctions, mixer and scam exposure before you send funds to an exchange; Plastron flags a direct hit free, and a free account unlocks the full check in seconds.
Pre-Deposit Crypto Check Before Sending to an Exchange
A pre-deposit check takes 30 seconds and can prevent months of account freeze. Know what your wallet looks like from the exchange's compliance perspective before you send.
A pre-deposit crypto check is exactly what it sounds like: screening your wallet for AML risk before depositing to a centralized exchange. Despite being the single most effective way to avoid a compliance freeze, it is almost never done because the tools have historically been expensive or inaccessible. The reason the check matters is that exchanges run automated blockchain analytics on every incoming deposit. These systems trace fund flows across your wallet's counterparty graph, flag interactions with OFAC-designated addresses and known mixer contracts, and assign a risk score to the depositing wallet. The entire process happens before your deposit is credited — sometimes before it is even confirmed. If the system flags your wallet, your deposit goes to a manual review queue. If the manual review team decides the exposure is significant, your account is placed on hold and a source-of-funds request is issued. The investigation that follows is slow, frustrating, and not guaranteed to resolve in your favor. Most users who go through this process describe it as weeks of back-and-forth communication with a compliance team that cannot tell them what triggered the review or when it will end. The information asymmetry is severe: the exchange has full visibility into your wallet's risk profile before you deposit, and you have none. Running a Plastron pre-deposit check closes that gap. The first read takes about 30 seconds, needs no account or wallet connection, and flags a direct hit for free. Sign in — still free — and it shows you exactly the risk flags that an exchange compliance system will see when it scans your wallet. Wallets with Low scores can deposit with confidence. Wallets with Medium to High scores can investigate the specific counterparties driving the score before deciding whether to proceed or take steps to clean up their risk profile first.
Running pre-deposit crypto check on your wallet
Exchange-Perspective Risk Assessment
Plastron analyzes your wallet the same way an exchange compliance system does: OFAC sanctions check, mixer and darknet exposure, stolen fund links, fraud indicators, and a composite risk score. The analysis covers up to 1,000 recent transactions and produces a verdict — Low, Medium, High, or Critical — that indicates how likely your wallet is to trigger an automated exchange flag. A Low verdict means you can deposit with confidence; anything higher means you should review the specific flags first.
Specific Flag Identification Before You Send
If your wallet has any risk exposure, Plastron identifies exactly which counterparties are responsible — the specific addresses, their entity types, the transaction volumes, and the recency of your interaction. This specificity is essential: it tells you whether the flag is a small historical interaction that an exchange is unlikely to act on, or a significant recent exposure that will almost certainly trigger a compliance hold.
Zero Friction to Start, One Free Account for the Rest
The entire pre-deposit check takes place in your browser. Connect your wallet for address pre-fill, or simply type any Ethereum address, for an instant free read with no account. Sign in — no API key, no subscription, ever — and the full risk report completes in under 30 seconds. For a check that could prevent months of account freeze, this is the lowest-friction compliance tool available.
Risk categories behind pre-deposit crypto check
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