On-chain reading — wallet flow for River Stone:

• Deposit-side hashes from claimant wallets into River Stone’s receiving addresses.
• Operator forwarding wallets — deposit consolidation documented to chain-of-custody standards.
• Inter-chain bridge transactions when value moves toward off-ramp liquidity.
• Mixer/obfuscation events the operator routed through, where present.
• Final off-ramp endpoint and named counterparty exchange.

Off-ramp reading — exchange counterparty for River Stone:

• Off-ramp endpoint for River Stone resolves to a named centralised counterparty — the venue varies casefile to casefile, but the resolution always names a real exchange wallet.
• River Stone’s off-ramp address is matched against the Professor’s compliance feed and against external chain-analytics datasets.
• The compliance packet for River Stone is structured the way an off-ramp compliance reviewer expects to receive evidence — header, hashes, narrative, ask.
• If the River Stone 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 River Stone — submission read against a no-go checklist, written go/no-go returned to the claimant inside one business day.
2. Trace on River Stone — deposit pathway mapped across chains, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Identify on River Stone — off-ramp endpoint matched to a named exchange counterparty.
4. File the River Stone 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 River Stone — the Professor stays on the casefile until a documented next step exists.

What we read in a River Stone casefile:

• Chains the Professor reads for River Stone casefiles — BTC, ETH, Tron USDT, BNB Smart Chain, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, plus the cross-chain bridges that link them.
• Off-ramps named in River Stone — major centralised venues with compliance desks that accept regulator-grade packets.
• Filing pathways available on River Stone — 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:

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