Wallet trace, what the Professor maps:

• Deposit confirmations from the claimant to Edge Markets’s receiving wallet at edgemarkets.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 reading, exchange counterparty for Edge Markets:

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

Recovery sequence, from on-chain reading to filed packet:

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

Reading-list, chains and exchanges in scope:

• Deposit + forwarding chains for Edge Markets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron USDT-TRC20, plus the smart-contract chains (BSC, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism) that cross via bridges.
• Off-ramps the Edge Markets casefile may resolve to, centralised exchanges that respond to compliance filings.
• Filing pathways on Edge Markets, IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, and civil-discovery overlay.

Recovery scammers do these things; the Professor never does:

• Edge Markets policy, seed phrases are never requested.
• Edge Markets policy, remote-access logins are never requested.
• Edge Markets policy, no upfront cash retainer to scope.
• Edge Markets policy, no guaranteed-recovery language. None.
• Edge Markets policy, no unsolicited calls. The Professor responds in writing only.