Wallet trace — what the Professor maps:

• Claimant deposit hashes — provided in the case submission and verified against the public ledger for Orbis Markets.
• 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.

Off-ramp reading — exchange counterparty for Orbis Markets:

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

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

1. Triage on Orbis Markets — submission read against a no-go checklist, written go/no-go returned to the claimant inside one business day.
2. Trace on Orbis Markets — deposit pathway mapped across chains, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Identify on Orbis Markets — off-ramp endpoint matched to a named exchange counterparty.
4. File the Orbis Markets packet — IC3, state AG (where loss meets state thresholds), off-ramp compliance desk, and civil-discovery overlay where dollar value supports it.
5. Follow-through on Orbis Markets — the Professor stays on the casefile until a documented next step exists.

What the casefile records — chains and counterparties:

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

Lines the Professor will not cross:

• Boundary on Orbis Markets — seed phrases are off-limits.
• Boundary on Orbis Markets — remote logins are off-limits.
• Boundary on Orbis Markets — upfront cash retainers are off-limits.
• Boundary on Orbis Markets — guaranteed-recovery promises are off-limits.
• Boundary on Orbis Markets — unsolicited outbound contact is off-limits.