KYT (Know Your Transaction)
regulation · compliance · analytics
Know Your Transaction is transaction monitoring that assesses crypto activity for sanctions, fraud, and AML risk.
KYT applies real-time and retrospective analytics to transactions, addresses, and flows. It complements KYC by evaluating activity and counterparties rather than only verifying who opened an account.
KYT tools use watchlists, clustering heuristics, exposure scoring, typology detection, travel rule metadata, and manual investigation. Results are probabilistic and can produce false positives.
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