From the marginalia — the deposit pathway:

• Claimant deposit hashes — provided in the case submission and verified against the public ledger for Markets Bank.
• Forwarding wallets on the deposit chain — each hop documented with the forwarding tx hash and the consolidating wallet.
• Bridge events into chains where the operator can off-ramp at scale.
• Mixer or privacy-service interactions, where present, listed with the contract address and the deposit/withdraw side.
• Off-ramp endpoint — the centralised exchange deposit address holding the compliance lever.

The Professor’s off-ramp note:

• On the Markets Bank casefile, the off-ramp endpoint resolves to a centralised exchange — Bitfinex, MEXC, or Crypto.com seen often in this segment, with the larger venues routed through under stress.
• The off-ramp wallet for Markets Bank is run against chain-analytics datasets and the Professor’s own compliance feeds.
• A regulator-ready packet is delivered to the named counterparty — the Markets Bank casefile is built to the off-ramp’s compliance standard.
• Where the off-ramp will not engage, Markets Bank escalates to IC3, state AG, and civil-discovery overlay.

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

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

What the on-chain reading covers:

• Chains tracked on Markets Bank — 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 Markets Bank — named exchange counterparties with public compliance contacts.
• Filings supported on Markets Bank — IC3, state AG, off-ramp compliance, civil discovery — selected by the dollar value and the off-ramp’s responsiveness.

Recovery scammers do these things; the Professor never does:

• Hard line on Markets Bank — no seed-phrase requests, period.
• Hard line on Markets Bank — no remote logins requested.
• Hard line on Markets Bank — no upfront cash retainer.
• Hard line on Markets Bank — no guarantee language.
• Hard line on Markets Bank — no unsolicited phone outreach.