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Transaction risk analysis examines the entities a wallet has sent funds to and received them from, flagging high-risk counterparties; Plastron runs this analysis free across seven EVM chains once you sign in for a free account.

Transaction Risk Analysis

Your transactions tell a story. Make sure it reads well to the compliance systems judging it.

Every Ethereum transaction is a permanent record. Not just the amount and the timestamp — the counterparty address, the contract called, the method invoked, the internal transfers triggered. All of it is recorded, all of it is public, and all of it is analyzed by compliance systems when you interact with regulated platforms. A single transaction with a flagged address can change your entire risk profile. Receiving 10 ETH from an address that was later linked to an exploit creates a direct exposure signal. Swapping tokens through a DEX aggregator that routes through a mixer-adjacent pool creates an indirect signal. Even failed transactions against a sanctioned contract can appear in your history. Most people do not think about their transactions as risk events. But that is exactly how compliance systems evaluate them — each one is a data point in a risk model. Understanding which transactions carry risk is the first step toward managing that risk.

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What Plastron does for transaction risk analysis

Deep Transaction Analysis

Plastron analyzes up to 1,000 of your most recent transactions across three categories: normal ETH transfers, ERC-20 token transfers, and internal contract transactions. We merge these into a unified view, identify counterparties, and flag any interaction with high-risk entities. Flagged transactions show the risk category, severity, and the specific counterparty that triggered the alert. You get transaction-level visibility into exactly where risk enters your wallet.

Fund Flow Visualization

The Sankey diagram shows your top five fund sources (where ETH came from) and top five destinations (where ETH went). Each flow is labeled with the entity name and colored by risk category. It is the fastest way to see whether you have meaningful fund flows to or from flagged addresses. The visual representation cuts through raw data noise and immediately highlights problematic patterns.

Which risks are checked

Sanctions
OFAC SDN-listed addresses. Direct or indirect exposure flags your wallet instantly.
Mixer
Tornado Cash, Railgun and other labelled mixing protocols. Interaction with these services is a major red flag.
Stolen Funds
Wallets linked to hacks, exploits, and bridge attacks. Even receiving a fraction taints your address.
Fraud
Scam tokens, rug pulls, and pig-butchering schemes. The fastest-growing category of crypto crime.
1.5M+
Daily Ethereum transactions
Source: Etherscan network stats
50
Merged transactions shown per scan report
Source: Plastron dashboard

What we actually screen against

Measured from Plastron’s own screening corpus, rebuilt on every deploy.

1,047
sanctioned addresses in the corpus
one of the risk categories this page covers
34
mixer contracts and routers in the corpus
one of the risk categories this page covers
250
hack and exploit addresses in the corpus
one of the risk categories this page covers

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