An entity label is the name a screening result puts on an address: the exchange, payment processor, marketplace, swap service or designated actor it belongs to. It is the readable half of a result — the category says what kind of thing the address is, the label says which one. Labels are what make a check explainable to a colleague, a bank or an auditor who does not read blockchains.
A file that says "high-risk counterparty" tells the next reader nothing they can act on. A file that says "deposit address at a named no-KYC swap service" tells them what happened, why it mattered, and what to ask next. Labels are the difference between a compliance record and a shrug written down.
They also make policy possible. You cannot write a rule about "suspicious addresses", but you can write one about swap services with no identity requirements, about gambling venues unlicensed in your market, or about venues your bank has told you it will not accept funds from.
And they are what survives handover. Staff change, reviewers leave, cases reopen a year later in front of somebody who was not there. A named venue in a file still means something to that person; an unlabelled address means they start the work again from nothing.
The label appears with the verdict, alongside the entity's category and the drivers behind the level. Where the address has no public identity, the result says so plainly rather than inventing one. Labels also travel: the same name appears in the workspace case, in the queue filter, and in the signed report you forward.
For a single address, the Telegram bot returns the label and the verdict in seconds, free, three checks a day.
A category is the kind of thing — exchange, mixer, darknet market, payment processor. A label is the specific one. A result carries both because a decision usually depends on which named venue is involved.
Publicly documented sources: addresses a venue publishes, addresses named in designations and enforcement actions, court records, and analysis of public on-chain behaviour.
Yes. A venue's deposit address can be labelled by the venue and also carry categories from what has been sent to it. Read them as separate facts rather than as one verdict.
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A label is a statement about identity; the verdict is a statement about connections. A strong label with a mild exposure and a missing label with a direct exposure are different files, and both deserve to be read in full.
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