On-chain reading — wallet flow for Spotrade:

• Claimant deposit hashes — provided in the case submission and verified against the public ledger for Spotrade.
• Forwarding wallets on the deposit chain — each hop documented with the forwarding tx hash and the consolidating wallet.
• Bridge events into chains where the operator can off-ramp at scale.
• Mixer or privacy-service interactions, where present, listed with the contract address and the deposit/withdraw side.
• Off-ramp endpoint — the centralised exchange deposit address holding the compliance lever.

The annotation continues — off-ramp endpoint:

• Spotrade casefiles end at a centralised exchange — Bybit, KuCoin, OKX, or Gate.io are common; the casefile names the actual deposit address that received the consolidated funds.
• Off-ramp wallet for Spotrade is matched against compliance and chain-analytics datasets the Professor reads daily.
• Compliance leverage applied to the named off-ramp for Spotrade — the packet is delivered in compliance-desk format.
• Non-cooperative off-ramps trigger IC3 + state-AG + civil-discovery escalation on the Spotrade casefile.

Recovery pathway — how this casefile moves toward filing:

1. Casefile triage on Spotrade — the submission is read; a written assessment is delivered.
2. Forensic trace on Spotrade — every hop in the deposit pathway is captured and hashed.
3. Off-ramp identification — the Spotrade endpoint is named.
4. Recovery filing on Spotrade — packet delivered to IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, and civil discovery as applicable.
5. Continuing review of Spotrade — the Professor follows the casefile until next-step documentation exists.

What the Professor tracks across Spotrade casefiles:

• Chains in scope for Spotrade — the chains that handle the volume of casefile activity in this segment (BTC, ETH, Tron, BSC, plus L2s).
• Off-ramps in scope for Spotrade — named centralised exchanges with compliance leverage.
• Filings supported on Spotrade — IC3, state AG, off-ramp desk, civil discovery as applicable.

Recovery scammers do these things; the Professor never does:

• On the Spotrade casefile — never request a seed phrase. Ever.
• On the Spotrade casefile — never request remote-access logins to a wallet or exchange.
• On the Spotrade casefile — never demand an upfront cash retainer to scope the matter.
• On the Spotrade casefile — never promise a guaranteed recovery. The trail does not promise one.
• On the Spotrade casefile — never call the claimant unsolicited. Written-only.