An AML check of a crypto wallet is a screening of a blockchain address against sanctions designations, law-enforcement records and known criminal clusters, ending in a verdict on whether the funds behind it are safe to accept. It reads the public chain, so it needs no cooperation from the address owner and no account with their exchange. Desks run one before a deposit, a payout or a P2P settlement, and keep the result as the record of why they accepted the money.
Money that arrives from a sanctioned entity, a darknet market or a ransomware wallet does not stop being that money when it lands in your account. The exchange that receives it next screens the same public chain you can, and if you skipped the check, the first person to find out is you — usually as a held balance and a request to explain where the funds came from. An AML check moves that discovery to before the transfer, while declining is still an option.
For a desk there is a second reason, and it is documentary. A regulator, a bank or an auditor asking why you accepted a payment wants a dated record, not a recollection. OFAC treats a digital currency address as an identifier that can be attached to a designated person (OFAC FAQ 559) — which is exactly what a screening result tests, and exactly what your file needs to show.
A result names three things. A verdict word — CLEAN, LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH or CRITICAL. A recommendation — Proceed, Caution, Review or Reject. And the decision drivers in plain words: sanctions, darknet market, mixer, scam, drainer, high-risk exchange, issuer freeze. Where the address is attributed, the result names the service or actor behind it instead of leaving a blank.
Paste an address into the Telegram bot and you get that verdict in seconds, free, three checks a day, with no account and no signup. In the workspace the same result is a case you can assign, a filter on your review queue, and a signed report you can forward to a counterparty, a bank or an auditor.
A check costs nothing in the bot at three a day. Volume screening, monitoring and the API live in the workspace, from $199/mo on the pricing page.
Seconds. The check reads the public chain and the intelligence attached to the address. Nothing waits on the counterparty and there is no queue on their side.
Yes. Blockchain addresses and their transaction history are public. Screening reads what is already published; the owner is not notified and does not have to agree.
It says the address carried no known link to a sanctioned entity or a criminal cluster at the moment you checked. New intelligence can attach to an address later, which is why desks re-check before large settlements.
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Three checks a day in the Telegram bot cost nothing. Volume screening, monitoring and API access are part of the workspace plans from $199/mo.
Send any wallet to the Telegram bot and get a verdict in seconds. Three checks a day, free, no signup. Desks that screen every deposit run it on plans from $199/mo.