Reading the wallets — GAINLIT casefile:

• Deposit transaction hashes from the claimant wallet to the GAINLIT platform receiving address.
• Forwarding wallets the platform consolidated through — typically two to four hops on the deposit chain (BTC / ETH / USDT-TRC20 / BSC / Polygon / Arbitrum / Optimism / Avalanche).
• Bridge crossings between chains, where the operator moves value into a chain with deeper liquidity ahead of the off-ramp.
• Mixer interactions — Tornado-Cash variants, Sinbad, and the smaller obfuscation services that operators rotate through under regulatory pressure.
• Final off-ramp wallet — the centralised exchange deposit address that received the consolidated funds.

The Professor’s off-ramp note:

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

Recovery pathway — how this casefile moves toward filing:

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

What the on-chain reading covers:

• Chains the Professor reads for GAINLIT casefiles — BTC, ETH, Tron USDT, BNB Smart Chain, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, plus the cross-chain bridges that link them.
• Off-ramps named in GAINLIT — major centralised venues with compliance desks that accept regulator-grade packets.
• Filing pathways available on GAINLIT — IC3 for US claimants, state AG offices, off-ramp compliance, and civil-discovery overlay for high-value loss.

Lines we never cross — by published policy:

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