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Web3 Tech Brief By HackerNoon · August 14 · 7 min

Why Static Blocklists Are Dead: The HTX Wallet-Rotation Problem

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-static-blocklists-are-dead-the-htx-wallet-rotation-problem. HTX rotates crypto wallets every few hours across 4 blockchains to dodge sanctions screening. Why static blocklists fail and what comes next. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #cryptocurrency, #web3, #compliance, #aml, #sanctions, #blockchain, #crypto-exchange, #regulation, and more. This story was written by: @timurmekhantev. Learn more about this writer by checking @timurmekhantev's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. After UK and EU sanctions, HTX kept operating by rapidly rotating hot wallets across TRON, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Solana — sometimes every few hours. TRM Labs says this renders static address-based sanctions screening largely ineffective, and argues the industry needs to shift toward behavior-based detection: tracking transaction patterns and fund flows instead of fixed blocklists.

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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-static-blocklists-are-dead-the-htx-wallet-rotation-problem.
HTX rotates crypto wallets every few hours across 4 blockchains to dodge sanctions screening. Why static blocklists fail and what comes next.
Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #cryptocurrency, #web3, #compliance, #aml, #sanctions, #blockchain, #crypto-exchange, #regulation, and more.

This story was written by: @timurmekhantev. Learn more about this writer by checking @timurmekhantev's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.

After UK and EU sanctions, HTX kept operating by rapidly rotating hot wallets across TRON, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Solana — sometimes every few hours. TRM Labs says this renders static address-based sanctions screening largely ineffective, and argues the industry needs to shift toward behavior-based detection: tracking transaction patterns and fund flows instead of fixed blocklists.

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