Wallet trace — what the Professor maps:

• Initial deposit hashes to the Capitus receiving address at capitus.net.
• Hop-by-hop forwarding wallets across the deposit chain, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
• Cross-chain bridge events that move value into the chain where liquidity supports the eventual off-ramp.
• Obfuscation events through mixer contracts and privacy services.
• Centralised-exchange off-ramp wallets — the named counterparty that holds compliance leverage.

The Professor’s off-ramp note:

• Capitus off-ramps consistently to centralised exchanges — Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini appear less often than the offshore venues; the casefile names the actual endpoint.
• The Capitus 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 Capitus — the packet meets the off-ramp’s published compliance standard.
• When the Capitus off-ramp does not respond, escalation runs through IC3 (for US claimants), state AG, and (above a dollar threshold) civil-discovery overlay.

Pathway to recovery — what happens after the trail is mapped:

1. Triage on Capitus — submission read against a no-go checklist, written go/no-go returned to the claimant inside one business day.
2. Trace on Capitus — deposit pathway mapped across chains, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Identify on Capitus — off-ramp endpoint matched to a named exchange counterparty.
4. File the Capitus 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 Capitus — the Professor stays on the casefile until a documented next step exists.

Chains and off-ramps the Professor follows:

• Chains the Capitus 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 Capitus — the major venues including OKX, Bybit, Binance and KuCoin, plus the regional venues operators rotate through under regulatory stress.
• Filings the Capitus 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 is never asked of a claimant:

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