From the marginalia — the deposit pathway:

• Deposit transaction hashes from the claimant wallet to the Obsidian Group 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.

Off-ramp reading — exchange counterparty for Obsidian Group:

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

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

1. Casefile review on Obsidian Group — reading the submission against the no-go list.
2. Trace mapping on Obsidian Group — pathway documented to chain-of-custody standard.
3. Off-ramp naming on Obsidian Group — exchange endpoint identified.
4. Packet filing on Obsidian Group — to the named off-ramp, IC3, state AG; civil discovery overlay as applicable.
5. Documented follow-through on Obsidian Group.

What the Professor tracks across Obsidian Group casefiles:

• Chains in scope for Obsidian Group — the chains that handle the volume of casefile activity in this segment (BTC, ETH, Tron, BSC, plus L2s).
• Off-ramps in scope for Obsidian Group — named centralised exchanges with compliance leverage.
• Filings supported on Obsidian Group — IC3, state AG, off-ramp desk, civil discovery as applicable.

Lines we never cross — by published policy:

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