Methodology

How we reach a defensible conclusion

Every Fesoti engagement runs on the same backbone: gather the facts, screen them, model behaviour, reconcile them against your story, and package the result so a third party — a bank, an exchange, a court — can verify it. A human stands behind every conclusion, with an explicit confidence level.

Principles

What every conclusion rests on

Independent

Our conclusions follow the chain and the documents, not the client’s wishes.

Human-in-the-loop

A person stands behind each finding and states an explicit confidence level — never a flat “all clean”.

Whitelisted only

We take lawful cases and prove them. We decline to hide, fabricate or launder — the final decision always stays with you.

Reproducible

The same method, sources and evidence chain behind every report — so anyone can retrace it.

The engine

Labels × behaviour × known-evil

01

Attribution by labels

Who an address is — exchange, service, personal, known actor — from block explorers, TronScan, Arkham and our own database.

02

Behavioural attribution

The address type and risk from how it behaves — the backbone under every other service.

03

Known-evil screening

Sanctions (OFAC / EU / UN), the Tether blacklist, mixers, scams and hacks — checked on the full address.

The backbone

Eight stages behind every service (E0–E7)

Timelines differ — hours for a pre-deal check, days for a passport — but the discipline is the same.

E0

Intake & scoring

Is the case lawful and provable; are there stop-factors? A first on-chain look.

E1

Inputs

A structured interview or deal card: addresses, amounts, dates, context.

E2

Data collection

Address history and documents — normalised into a clean dataset.

E3

Screening

Key addresses run against labels and known-evil lists.

E4

Behaviour

Address type, dirty-inflow share, tracing a few hops back.

E5

Reconciliation

Does the on-chain match the story and the documents?

E6

Report

A structured document with the verdict up front and every source cited.

E7

Hand-over & DB update

Delivery, guidance, and new labels recorded for the next case.

Evidence standards

What makes a Fesoti report hold up

  • A continuous, unbroken chain — every hop closed with a document.
  • Client data reconciled against on-chain evidence, both ways.
  • Explicit confidence levels on every conclusion.
  • Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media screening on record.
  • A format a bank, exchange or court can read and verify.

The report

Verdict first, evidence under it

Our reports lead with the conclusion so you can act immediately, then lay out scope, sources, on-chain analysis, screening and limitations — the same structure whether it’s a Capital Passport or a pre-deal verdict.

Honest limits. The blockchain gives a probabilistic picture of the past, not a guarantee of the future. We state confidence, not certainty; the final decision stays with you; and nothing here is legal or tax advice.

Our infrastructure

A database that compounds

Behind the services we build our own database — labels, known-evil addresses, resolved cases — that grows with every engagement. Each case makes the next verdict faster and more confident.

See the method applied

Every service page shows this backbone in its own E0–E7. Or start a confidential consultation.

Services