Trace summary — funds that left aligninvest.net:

• Deposit transaction hashes from the claimant wallet to the Aligninvest platform receiving address.
• Forwarding wallets the platform consolidated through — typically two to four hops on the deposit chain (BTC / ETH / USDT-TRC20 / BSC / Polygon / Arbitrum / Optimism / Avalanche).
• Bridge crossings between chains, where the operator moves value into a chain with deeper liquidity ahead of the off-ramp.
• Mixer interactions — Tornado-Cash variants, Sinbad, and the smaller obfuscation services that operators rotate through under regulatory pressure.
• Final off-ramp wallet — the centralised exchange deposit address that received the consolidated funds.

Off-ramp summary — Aligninvest casefile:

• Aligninvest 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 Aligninvest is matched against compliance and chain-analytics datasets the Professor reads daily.
• Compliance leverage applied to the named off-ramp for Aligninvest — the packet is delivered in compliance-desk format.
• Non-cooperative off-ramps trigger IC3 + state-AG + civil-discovery escalation on the Aligninvest casefile.

Recovery sequence — from on-chain reading to filed packet:

1. Triage on Aligninvest — submission read against a no-go checklist, written go/no-go returned to the claimant inside one business day.
2. Trace on Aligninvest — deposit pathway mapped across chains, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Identify on Aligninvest — off-ramp endpoint matched to a named exchange counterparty.
4. File the Aligninvest packet — IC3, state AG (where loss meets state thresholds), off-ramp compliance desk, and civil-discovery overlay where dollar value supports it.
5. Follow-through on Aligninvest — the Professor stays on the casefile until a documented next step exists.

What we read in a Aligninvest casefile:

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

What the Professor will never do — by policy:

• Boundary on Aligninvest — seed phrases are off-limits.
• Boundary on Aligninvest — remote logins are off-limits.
• Boundary on Aligninvest — upfront cash retainers are off-limits.
• Boundary on Aligninvest — guaranteed-recovery promises are off-limits.
• Boundary on Aligninvest — unsolicited outbound contact is off-limits.