Identity
Customer, business, and beneficiary verification
05
Verify
Put screening, monitoring, and escalation around the money flow.
A risk score only becomes a control when policy, ownership, investigation, and evidence are defined.
First questionWhat event should stop, escalate, or reject a transaction?
Decision signals
When this path deserves investigation.
- 01
The business controls or facilitates customer or counterparty flows.
- 02
Wallet and transaction risk must be evaluated.
- 03
Compliance teams can own alerts and case outcomes.
- 04
Legal analysis has defined the applicable obligations.
Operating stack
Four layers that must agree.
A provider can cover several layers, but the business still needs an owner and evidence for each one.
Screen
Wallet, sanctions, exposure, and counterparty checks
Monitor
Transaction behavior, rules, alerts, and thresholds
Resolve
Investigation, escalation, reporting, and retention
Risk register starter
What could make the flow fail?
Use these as investigation prompts. They are not a complete legal, security, accounting, or compliance assessment.
- R01Assuming a vendor’s risk score determines legal compliance
- R02Unowned alerts and weak escalation
- R03Coverage gaps across assets, networks, or typologies
- R04Poor documentation of decisions and model limitations
Provider starting set
Different operating models, not a ranked list.
Chainalysis
Blockchain data and risk tooling for financial institutions, crypto businesses, governments, and compliance teams.
TRM Labs
Blockchain intelligence and compliance tooling focused on detecting illicit finance and managing on-chain risk.
Fireblocks
Enterprise infrastructure for wallets, treasury operations, stablecoin payments, security policy, and custody connections.
Build the brief
Research before the demo.
01Procurement
The 24 questions every stablecoin provider evaluation should answer
A source-ready scorecard covering eligibility, money flow, security, compliance, accounting, and commercial terms.
11 min read02PolicyThe U.S. stablecoin policy baseline for business teams
What changed federally, what did not disappear, and which official sources deserve a place in the project file.
9 min read03ControlCustody is an operating model, not a checkbox
A practical way to decide who controls keys, approves transfers, secures recovery, and bears operational responsibility.
8 min read