Wallet trace — what the Professor maps:

• Claimant deposit hashes — provided in the case submission and verified against the public ledger for GrandTrade.
• 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.

Off-ramp map — where the funds left the chain:

• GrandTrade off-ramps consistently to centralised exchanges — Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini appear less often than the offshore venues; the casefile names the actual endpoint.
• The GrandTrade off-ramp address is matched to known compliance feeds — the Professor’s standing dataset plus chain-analytics references.
• Compliance leverage is applied at the named counterparty for GrandTrade — the packet meets the off-ramp’s published compliance standard.
• When the GrandTrade off-ramp does not respond, escalation runs through IC3 (for US claimants), state AG, and (above a dollar threshold) civil-discovery overlay.

Filing pathway — the next step after the off-ramp is identified:

1. Casefile review on GrandTrade — reading the submission against the no-go list.
2. Trace mapping on GrandTrade — pathway documented to chain-of-custody standard.
3. Off-ramp naming on GrandTrade — exchange endpoint identified.
4. Packet filing on GrandTrade — to the named off-ramp, IC3, state AG; civil discovery overlay as applicable.
5. Documented follow-through on GrandTrade.

What the casefile records — chains and counterparties:

• Chains the GrandTrade casefile may touch — Bitcoin and Ethereum at the deposit side, Tron USDT-TRC20 in stablecoin pathways, BNB Smart Chain and the L2s (Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Base) where bridges link them.
• Off-ramps relevant to GrandTrade — the major venues including OKX, Bybit, Binance and KuCoin, plus the regional venues operators rotate through under regulatory stress.
• Filings the GrandTrade packet supports — IC3, the appropriate state attorney general, the off-ramp’s compliance desk, and a civil-discovery overlay where dollar value justifies it.

What the Professor will never do — by policy:

• What the Professor will not do on GrandTrade — ask for a seed phrase.
• What the Professor will not do on GrandTrade — request remote-access logins.
• What the Professor will not do on GrandTrade — demand cash up front.
• What the Professor will not do on GrandTrade — promise a guarantee.
• What the Professor will not do on GrandTrade — call you out of the blue.