The annotation reads — wallet trace:

• Deposit confirmations from the claimant to Afex Markets’s receiving wallet at afex-markets.com.
• Forwarding-wallet pathway documented hop-by-hop with chain-of-custody hashes.
• Cross-chain bridge transactions where the operator routed value out of the deposit chain.
• Mixer or coin-join interactions, where applicable.
• Final off-ramp at a centralised exchange — the compliance counterparty named in the recovery filing.

Off-ramp summary — Afex Markets casefile:

• Off-ramp endpoint for Afex Markets resolves to a named centralised counterparty — the venue varies casefile to casefile, but the resolution always names a real exchange wallet.
• Afex Markets’s off-ramp address is matched against the Professor’s compliance feed and against external chain-analytics datasets.
• The compliance packet for Afex Markets is structured the way an off-ramp compliance reviewer expects to receive evidence — header, hashes, narrative, ask.
• If the Afex Markets off-ramp counterparty does not respond inside the published window, escalation routes through IC3, state AG, and civil discovery.

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

1. Casefile triage on Afex Markets — the submission is read; a written assessment is delivered.
2. Forensic trace on Afex Markets — every hop in the deposit pathway is captured and hashed.
3. Off-ramp identification — the Afex Markets endpoint is named.
4. Recovery filing on Afex Markets — packet delivered to IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, and civil discovery as applicable.
5. Continuing review of Afex Markets — the Professor follows the casefile until next-step documentation exists.

What the Professor tracks across Afex Markets casefiles:

• Deposit-side chains in Afex Markets 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 Afex Markets packets — centralised exchanges that accept regulator-grade compliance filings.
• Filing options on Afex Markets — IC3 (US), state AG, off-ramp compliance desk, civil-discovery KYC where the dollar value warrants it.

What is never asked of a claimant:

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