Assess the counterparty, and its footprint.
Business counterparty assessment combining the information a business gives you with the on-chain activity attributable to it — so an onboarding decision rests on more than a form.
What is KYB for crypto businesses?
KYB, or Know Your Business, verifies a corporate counterparty rather than an individual: its ownership structure, its regulatory status as a virtual asset service provider, and the on-chain exposure sitting behind the relationship. It answers whether a business is what it claims to be before value moves between you.
What a KYB assessment draws on.
| Input | Source | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Declared information | Supplied by the counterparty | Corporate details, ownership, activity description, declared addresses. |
| On-chain footprint | Observed | Activity attributable to declared addresses, and exposure carried by it. |
| Entity attribution | Platform | Whether declared addresses match attributed services, and with what confidence. |
| Screening | Published lists | Designation matches against the entity and its declared addresses. |
| Risk model | Platform | Exposure scoring across the declared footprint. |
| Reviewer judgement | Your team | The assessment itself, with rationale recorded. |
Where an assessment can sit.
Pending
Submitted, not yet reviewed.
In review
Assigned to a reviewer, with a working record.
Information requested
Blocked pending something the counterparty must supply.
Approved
Approved under your policy, with rationale recorded.
Declined
Declined, with reason recorded and retained.
Periodic review
Re-assessment scheduled by policy or triggered by a change in exposure.
Corporate and personal information supplied during KYB is subject to least-privilege access control, is visible only to reviewers assigned to the assessment, and every access is written to the audit log. It is not used for anything other than the assessment it was collected for.
An approval recorded here is your decision under your policy. ChainwatchCrypto does not certify, licence or vouch for any business, and no result from this tooling should be represented to a third party as if it did.