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Crypto Investigations, Risk & Compliance
Long-form guides and analysis on tracing funds, scoring wallet risk, and the practical questions behind crypto investigations and compliance. Each piece is written to stand on its own — useful whether or not you ever use OnChainRisk.
New articles are added here as we publish them.
RWA Token Analysis: What OnChainRisk Checks in a Tokenized Asset
How OnChainRisk analyzes a tokenized asset from its Ethereum contract: token and RWA standards (ERC-3643, ERC-7943 uRWA), on-chain controls and controllers, issuer and legal evidence — each fact kept to its source and provenance, with unknowns left as unknowns rather than collapsed into a single score.
Read the guide →Why “Clean” and “Dirty” Crypto Is the Wrong Mental Model
Binary clean/dirty labels describe a verdict, not evidence. An evidence-weighted model for crypto risk: observed facts vs inference, direct vs indirect exposure, amount and counterparty context, attribution confidence, sanctions distinctions, and reading a risk score as an input rather than proof.
Read the guide →How to Trace USDT on TRON (TRC20): A Practical Wallet Investigation Guide
A practical workflow for investigating USDT on TRON: reconstruct TRC20 transfer history as its own data surface, order events deterministically, name how complete the retrieval actually is, separate TRX funding from resource delegation, and layer risk only after the history.
Read the guide →How to Trace Crypto Across Cross-Chain Bridges
A practical investigation workflow for connecting a source-chain bridge transaction to its destination-chain settlement: identify the protocol, grade the evidence from protocol-native identifier to amount/timing correlation, and label each cross-chain link as proven, probable or partial.
Read the guide →How to Investigate a Suspicious Crypto Transaction Step by Step
A step-by-step method for investigating a suspicious crypto transaction: preserve the raw facts, identify what actually moved, trace counterparties and funds backward and forward, follow activity across bridges, separate facts from inference, and preserve evidence.
Read the guide →AI Agents for Crypto Investigations: Tools, Evidence, Audit Trails, and Human Review
How tool-using investigation assistants trace funds without becoming a black box: separating tool output from model interpretation, evidence provenance, audit trails, and where human review belongs.
Read the guide →The Token Is Not the Asset: A Practical Due-Diligence Guide for RWA Investors
What to verify before buying a tokenized real-world asset: the legal claim, the issuer structure, the authoritative record, backing, redemption rights and token controls.
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