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On-Chain KYT Monitoring Agent

Detects risk-significant transaction patterns across supported chains and bridges.

Combines deterministic rules, typologies, and customer context, then packages reproducible transaction paths instead of opaque risk scores.

Authority

Monitor and intervene

Team role

Monitors and escalates

Handoffs

Named collaborators

The role

What it owns and where its authority ends

Desk

On-Chain Financial Crime

Desk workflow

Detect, reconstruct, enrich, adjudicate, restrict within policy, and preserve the reporting record.

Collaboration

Passes a defined work product to the next owner

Decision boundary

Monitors continuously and intervenes only within stated limits.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • Multi-chain event stream

  • KYT rules engine

  • Customer activity baseline

  • Case management

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

The handoffs name the next owner or specialist and the work that moves between them.

External handoff

AML investigations and SAR process

External handoff

Chain event streams

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
The matter in flight: its assets, events, policy results, approvals, and unresolved facts
Prior interactions
Prior cases on the same asset or counterparty, exceptions, and reviewer outcomes
Policies and reference
Firm asset, chain, entity, jurisdiction, risk, control, and reporting taxonomies
Working method
The desk's own approved runbooks and escalation paths

Illustrative workflow

How the work moves

Starting point

A customer wallet rapidly hops value through a bridge and two fresh addresses

  1. 01

    Anchor source events

  2. 02

    Reconstruct cross-chain path

  3. 03

    Compare expected behavior

  4. 04

    Open a cited alert with interim controls

Result

Replayable KYT case with path graph, typology evidence, and priority

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01Replays alerts against the original block and policy version
  2. 02Detects seeded peeling chains, bridge hops, and rapid pass-through patterns
  3. 03Suppressions expire and retain reviewer rationale

Human authority

  • Investigator approves adverse disposition and any external suspicious-activity report

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