AML screening
Checking a counterparty address against sanctions lists, mixers and other risk signals before releasing funds. The boundary matters: we currently run list screening plus on-chain heuristics for Ethereum-family addresses, but for Tron we run list screening only, with no on-chain heuristics yet. We state that on the page rather than glossing over it.
In plainer words
AML stands for Anti-Money Laundering. AML screening means checking, before money goes out, whether the payee is "a problem" — on a sanctions list, a mixer, stolen-hacker-funds, or connected on-chain to any of those. Why do agents especially need it? A payee address is just a string of hex — you can't tell if it's clean by looking. A person might get suspicious from experience; an agent won't — it won't go research an address's history. And paying a sanctioned address can be outright illegal; by the time compliance notices, the money and the liability have landed. Good AML screening has two points. One is "multi-hop tracing": if the money didn't come straight from a sanctioned address but through a few hops, it should still be traceable. The other is verifiable evidence rather than a black-box score — telling you why it's risky and letting you click through to check, not just handing you "87/100." OceanAlt's free address-screening tool does exactly this: paste an address, get a clean/risky answer in 30 seconds, with evidence you can open.
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