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Check the address before the money goes.
A crypto transfer is final. There is no recall, no chargeback and nobody to write to, so the only useful moment to find out that an address is connected to a sanctioned entity, a known scam or a mixer is before you press send. This page is about that check, what it can honestly tell you, and what it cannot.
- 01
You pay a stranger and find out afterwards
A new supplier sends an address, the invoice looks ordinary, the money leaves. Nothing about the address itself tells you it received funds from a hack last month. By the time anyone tells you, the transfer is somebody else's now.
- 02
Money arrives from somewhere you would rather it had not
Incoming is the half nobody watches. A client pays you from an address with history, and the first time you hear about it is when the exchange you tried to cash out at freezes the withdrawal and asks where it came from.
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You did check, and cannot prove it
A bank or an exchange asks what due diligence you ran on a counterparty. The honest answer is that somebody looked at a block explorer once, in a browser tab that is long closed. That is not a record.
On the send form, before the send
The shield button sits next to the address you are about to pay, and on a contact's card if you would rather vet somebody once rather than per payment. You get a verdict, Low risk or High risk address, with the score behind it, and the destination in front of you while you read it.
A failed screening is not a clean one
If the provider cannot be reached, or refuses the request, the answer says so in those words. It never quietly comes back clean, because a silent pass on a security check is worse than no check at all: it is the same screen you would see if everything were fine. A failed screening costs you nothing, and one the provider leaves pending can be re-checked, free, for the next day.
Every check is kept
Date, address, verdict and who ran it. The history is per space, so a business and a personal space keep separate records, and nobody has to remember what was decided in March.
Vetting somebody once is enough
Mark a counterparty trusted and payments to them stop being screened one by one. The people you pay every week are usually the people you already know, and paying to check them again each Friday is a way to spend an allowance on nothing.
A screening is a photograph of the moment you asked.
Which is why the interesting part is what happens after.
Re-screened on a rhythm you set
Put an address under watch with a label and an interval, daily, weekly, every thirty or ninety days. An address that was clean when you first paid it does not stay clean by itself, because its own history keeps being written after you looked.
Senders of incoming transfers, screened automatically
When new money lands in a connected wallet, the address it came from is screened without anyone asking. This is the half you cannot do by hand, because you do not know a payment is coming until it has arrived.
You are told when a verdict turns, not every time it is checked
An alert fires when an address goes from acceptable to not. While it stays bad you hear about it at most once a week. A monitor that reports every pass is a monitor people mute in a fortnight, and a muted monitor is the same as none.
It runs out loudly
Automatic re-screens draw on the same allowance as the checks you run by hand, so watching cannot cost more than the checks your plan includes. When the balance is empty, monitoring pauses and says so. It does not quietly stop while you carry on believing you are covered.
Export the record
Download every screening over a date range as CSV, with the verdict and the person who ran it against each one. This is the artefact somebody eventually asks you to produce, and building it after the fact from memory is not the same document.
What this is not
It is not a compliance programme, it is not legal advice, and it is not KYC on the person behind an address. A low risk verdict is not a promise that a counterparty is honest; it says the address has no known bad history at the moment of the check. Treat it as one input into a decision you are still making yourself.
- Networks
- Ethereum and EVM chains, Tron, Bitcoin, Solana
- Where a check starts
- The send form, a contact's card, or the AML page in the sidebar
- Verdict
- Low risk or High risk address, with the score behind it
- Provider unreachable
- Reported as a failure, never as clean, and no credit is spent
- Pending screening
- Re-checkable free for 24 hours
- Monitoring intervals
- Daily, weekly, every 30 days, every 90 days
- Alerting
- On a verdict turning bad, then at most weekly while it stays bad
- Record
- Per space, exportable to CSV over a date range you choose
- Who can arm a watch
- Owners, admins and members. Viewers can read the page
- Where the page appears
- Personal and business spaces. A family or group space has no use for it
- Included
- A monthly allowance of checks on the paid plans, carried over if unused, with packs on top
- On Free
- One trial screening, once, after the email is confirmed
What does a crypto address screening actually check?
The address's own transaction history, traced against known entities: sanctioned addresses, darknet markets, mixers, addresses tied to reported hacks and scams, and exchanges. The result is a risk score with the categories behind it, not an opinion about the person holding the keys.
Can a screening tell me who owns a wallet?
No, and anything claiming otherwise is guessing. It tells you what an address has touched. Attribution to a real person or company is what an exchange does at account opening, with documents, and it is a different exercise entirely.
Why screen an address I am receiving money from?
Because the risk of tainted funds is on the receiver at the point where they try to cash out. An exchange that flags an incoming trail can freeze a withdrawal and ask you to explain it. Knowing on the day the payment landed leaves you options that knowing three months later does not.
Does a clean verdict mean the payment is safe?
It means the address had no known bad history when it was checked. It says nothing about whether the person will deliver the work, and nothing about history the address picks up tomorrow. That second gap is what monitoring is for.
What happens if the screening provider is down?
The check fails and says it failed, in those words, and no credit is spent. It never returns a clean verdict it did not receive. You can run it again when the provider is back.
Check it before you send it.
One screening costs less than the smallest payment you would regret.