From the marginalia — the deposit pathway:

• Deposit-side hashes from claimant wallets into Wealth Connect’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 Wealth Connect:

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

Recovery pathway — how this casefile moves toward filing:

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

What we read in a Wealth Connect casefile:

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

What is never asked of a claimant:

• On the Wealth Connect casefile — never request a seed phrase. Ever.
• On the Wealth Connect casefile — never request remote-access logins to a wallet or exchange.
• On the Wealth Connect casefile — never demand an upfront cash retainer to scope the matter.
• On the Wealth Connect casefile — never promise a guaranteed recovery. The trail does not promise one.
• On the Wealth Connect casefile — never call the claimant unsolicited. Written-only.