Wallet trace — what the Professor maps:

• Deposit transaction hashes from the claimant wallet to the Stellar Ace 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 Stellar Ace:

• On the Stellar Ace 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 Stellar Ace is run against chain-analytics datasets and the Professor’s own compliance feeds.
• A regulator-ready packet is delivered to the named counterparty — the Stellar Ace casefile is built to the off-ramp’s compliance standard.
• Where the off-ramp will not engage, Stellar Ace escalates to IC3, state AG, and civil-discovery overlay.

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

1. Triage on Stellar Ace — submission read against a no-go checklist, written go/no-go returned to the claimant inside one business day.
2. Trace on Stellar Ace — deposit pathway mapped across chains, captured with chain-of-custody hashes.
3. Identify on Stellar Ace — off-ramp endpoint matched to a named exchange counterparty.
4. File the Stellar Ace 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 Stellar Ace — the Professor stays on the casefile until a documented next step exists.

What the casefile records — chains and counterparties:

• Chains the Stellar Ace casefile may touch — Bitcoin and Ethereum at the deposit side, Tron USDT-TRC20 in stablecoin pathways, BNB Smart Chain and the L2s (Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Base) where bridges link them.
• Off-ramps relevant to Stellar Ace — the major venues including OKX, Bybit, Binance and KuCoin, plus the regional venues operators rotate through under regulatory stress.
• Filings the Stellar Ace packet supports — IC3, the appropriate state attorney general, the off-ramp’s compliance desk, and a civil-discovery overlay where dollar value justifies it.

Recovery scammers do these things; the Professor never does:

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