From the marginalia — the deposit pathway:

• Claimant-to-platform deposit transactions on the deposit chain used by Base Markets.
• 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 summary — Base Markets casefile:

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

Filing pathway — the next step after the off-ramp is identified:

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

Chains and off-ramps the Professor follows:

• Chains tracked on Base Markets — Bitcoin and Ethereum at the deposit side; Tron USDT-TRC20 and BSC at the consolidation side; bridges crossed where the operator chases liquidity.
• Off-ramps tracked on Base Markets — named exchange counterparties with public compliance contacts.
• Filings supported on Base Markets — IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, civil discovery — selected by the dollar value and the off-ramp’s responsiveness.

Lines we never cross — by published policy:

• Recovery scammers do these things on Base Markets; the Professor never does — request seed phrases.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Base Markets; the Professor never does — request remote logins.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Base Markets; the Professor never does — demand upfront cash.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Base Markets; the Professor never does — guarantee a recovery.
• Recovery scammers do these things on Base Markets; the Professor never does — call you unsolicited.