Reading the wallets — Open Trades casefile:

• Claimant-to-platform deposit transactions on the deposit chain used by Open Trades.
• Operator-controlled forwarding wallets where deposits consolidate ahead of laundering or off-ramping.
• Cross-chain bridge events to chains with deeper exchange liquidity.
• Privacy-service interactions, where present in the trail.
• Off-ramp wallet — the named centralised-exchange endpoint.

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

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

Recovery pathway — how this casefile moves toward filing:

1. Read the Open Trades submission — written go/no-go returned.
2. Map the Open Trades wallet trail — every hop captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Name the Open Trades off-ramp — endpoint counterparty identified.
4. Build and file the Open Trades recovery packet — to IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, civil-discovery overlay.
5. Stay on the Open Trades file — until written next steps exist.

What the casefile records — chains and counterparties:

• Deposit-side chains in Open Trades casefiles — typically the major chains (BTC, ETH) and the high-throughput stablecoin chains (Tron USDT, BSC USDT) — with bridge crossings noted.
• Off-ramps named in Open Trades packets — centralised exchanges that accept regulator-grade compliance filings.
• Filing options on Open Trades — IC3 (US), state AG, off-ramp compliance desk, civil-discovery KYC where the dollar value warrants it.

Lines we never cross — by published policy:

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