Wallet trace — what the Professor maps:

• Deposit-side hashes from claimant wallets into Bitmarket Trades’s receiving addresses.
• Operator forwarding wallets — deposit consolidation documented to chain-of-custody standards.
• Inter-chain bridge transactions when value moves toward off-ramp liquidity.
• Mixer/obfuscation events the operator routed through, where present.
• Final off-ramp endpoint and named counterparty exchange.

The Professor’s off-ramp note:

• Bitmarket Trades off-ramps consistently to centralised exchanges — Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini appear less often than the offshore venues; the casefile names the actual endpoint.
• The Bitmarket Trades 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 Bitmarket Trades — the packet meets the off-ramp’s published compliance standard.
• When the Bitmarket Trades 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. Triage on Bitmarket Trades — submission read against a no-go checklist, written go/no-go returned to the claimant inside one business day.
2. Trace on Bitmarket Trades — deposit pathway mapped across chains, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Identify on Bitmarket Trades — off-ramp endpoint matched to a named exchange counterparty.
4. File the Bitmarket Trades 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 Bitmarket Trades — the Professor stays on the casefile until a documented next step exists.

What the casefile records — chains and counterparties:

• Chains the Bitmarket Trades 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 Bitmarket Trades — the major venues including OKX, Bybit, Binance and KuCoin, plus the regional venues operators rotate through under regulatory stress.
• Filings the Bitmarket Trades packet supports — IC3, the appropriate state attorney general, the off-ramp’s compliance desk, and a civil-discovery overlay where dollar value justifies it.

Lines the Professor will not cross:

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