Sanctions Screening

Match against what is published.

Screening against published designation lists, with the list, its version and the match basis recorded on every result — because a screening hit you cannot evidence is worse than none.

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Versioned listsRecorded match basisReviewable

What is crypto sanctions screening?

Crypto sanctions screening checks whether an address is controlled by a sanctioned party or exposed to one indirectly through intermediate transactions. Direct exposure means the address itself is listed. Indirect exposure means value reached it through a sanctioned counterparty, and the number of hops involved determines how material that exposure is.

Exposure by hop distancedirect and indirectEXPOSURE

Sanctioned entityMaterial exposure

How screening works

Four steps, all recorded.

List ingestion

Published designation lists are ingested and versioned. Every version is retained.

Normalisation

Designated addresses and identifiers are normalised to the platform's schema.

Matching

Direct address matches and exposure-path matches are evaluated separately, never conflated.

Result

A result records the list, version, match type, matched value and hop distance.

Match types

A direct match and an exposure match are not the same thing.

Type	Meaning	How to treat it
Direct match	The screened address itself appears on a published list.	Unambiguous. Verify against the publishing authority before acting.
Exposure match	A designated address appears in the screened address's exposure path.	A prompt to review, not a determination about the screened address.
Identifier match	A declared name or identifier matches a designated party.	Name matching produces false positives. Always reviewed by a person.
No match	Nothing observed against the ingested list versions.	Not a statement that no designation exists anywhere.

Limits

What screening here does and does not establish.

That an address appears on a specific version of a specific published list

That a designated address sits within an exposure path, at a stated hop distance

That a name string is similar to a designated party's name

That you have met your obligations in any jurisdiction

That a non-match means no designation applies

That a match identifies the person behind an address

That any list ingested here is complete or current at this moment

Verify against the publishing authority

Before you act on a designation match, confirm it against the authority that published it. This platform tells you what it observed against an ingested list version; the authoritative record is the authority's own.

We claim no regulatory status

ChainwatchCrypto is not a regulator, is not appointed by one, and does not hold or claim any licence, registration or approval in connection with this tooling.

Screen with a record you can defend.

Sanctions screening tooling is available to organisations under a platform agreement.

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