HTX Sanctions and the Limits of AML Screening. July 22, 2026 TRM Labs, a US blockchain analytics firm and one of the main competitors to the better-known Chainalysis and Elliptic, published an interesting article yesterday about the HTX exchange. As you probably remember, UK authorities added HTX to their sanctions list back in May. Since then, many firms that perform AML labeling of blockchain addresses have flagged addresses linked to the exchange as high-risk. As a result, withdrawing almost any crypto from HTX has become a real headache. Recipients that screen incoming transactions for money-laundering risks may simply refuse to accept funds that have passed through the exchange. In its article, TRM Labs argues that the applicable jurisdiction should be taken into account. UK-based organizations are legally required to freeze HTX-linked assets and report them, but companies outside the UK have no such automatic obligation. That sounds pretty sensible, doesn't it? If a crypto recipient has no ties to the UK and is not bound by its sanctions, AML providers should present risk information in a way that makes it clear that accepting these funds may not violate any rules in the recipient's own jurisdiction, although it could still cause problems when dealing with UK counterparties. It is honestly surprising that no one appears to have made this case publicly before. On this point, I am with TRM Labs. The article also notes that, since being sanctioned, HTX has started rotating its deposit and withdrawal addresses much more frequently, as shown in the screenshot. This makes it harder to identify each new address as belonging to the exchange in time. On one hand, this is convenient for legitimate HTX users. They may be able to withdraw their crypto before the recipient realizes that it came from an address linked to a sanctioned exchange. On the other hand, if you move crypto from HTX to another exchange, that exchange may eventually figure out where it came from. TRM Labs claims that it can identify HTX's new wallets. Once the receiving exchange makes that connection, it may freeze your account along with everything held in it. Keeping your crypto on exchanges is risky. When you exchange crypto through rabbit.io, Rabbit don't hold your funds. You send crypto from your own address and receive the exchanged assets directly to your own address as well.

Zama partners with Elliptic to make confidential finance compliant by design. Zama is partnering with Elliptic, the global leader in blockchain intelligence, to bring trusted compliance screening to confidential financial applications. This is a milestone for a simple reason: institutions will not adopt confidential finance unless it meets the compliance standards of regulated markets. With Elliptic, it does. Confidentiality and compliance are not opposites. Public blockchains expose everything. Every balance, every transaction amount, every position, visible to anyone watching the chain. No financial institution can operate that way, and no serious user should have to. Zama solves this with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Balances and transaction amounts stay encrypted end to end, while the network itself remains public, composable, and auditable. Only what needs to be confidential is confidential. This is what separates Zama from mixers and anonymity tools, and it is why confidentiality on Zama aligns with regulatory expectations rather than working against them. But confidentiality alone is not enough. Institutions also need to know they are not transacting with sanctioned or high-risk counterparties. Protecting sensitive financial information should never come at the expense of enabling illicit activity. Zama was built with the expectation that confidentiality and responsible risk management must evolve together. What Elliptic brings. Elliptic's blockchain intelligence is trusted by more than 700 institutions globally. As the first step in the collaboration, Elliptic will support wallet risk screening for the Zama app and future confidential financial products. The implementation is designed around strict confidentiality boundaries: * Elliptic performs risk screening on wallet addresses only. * No encrypted balances, transaction amounts, or other sensitive financial information is ever exposed. * Where a wallet is identified as high risk, institutions can apply appropriate compliance controls before the user enters the confidential application. Compliance workflows run where they should. Confidentiality guarantees hold where they must. That is what compliant by design means in practice. "Institutional adoption depends on trust. Financial institutions shouldn't have to choose between protecting sensitive financial information and meeting compliance obligations. Confidential finance must deliver both. Our collaboration with Elliptic is an important step toward making compliant confidential finance a reality for institutions building on public blockchains," said Rand Hindi, CEO and Co-founder of Zama. "For institutions to move real financial activity onto public blockchains, confidentiality and compliance have to work together rather than against each other. Zama is building confidential finance with compliance in scope from the start, and we are glad to support that by screening wallets for risk before a transaction proceeds. It is a model for how confidential finance can meet the standards regulated markets expect," said Jackson Hull, CTO and COO at Elliptic. Live today in Confidential DeFi. The first confidential financial application protected by this collaboration is already live: the confidential USDC Prime vault, developed by Steakhouse Financial and powered by Morpho on Zama. This initial application demonstrates how the same approach can support future confidential vaults and financial applications powered by Zama, enabling institutions to access confidential financial products while preserving the compliance controls they require. What's next. As Zama extends confidential finance to more use cases, the need for trusted blockchain intelligence grows with it. Zama will continue collaborating with leading infrastructure providers to establish the technologies, operational models, and industry standards that confidential finance needs to reach institutional scale. Compliant confidential finance is not a compromise. It is the foundation institutions have been waiting for. Additional links. * Start using confidential tokens on the Zama app * Need help? Contact the Zama team * Follow Zama on X for all updates

News & articles. At ConnectWeb Connectweb has a team of editors and researchers collating the most relevant information to you and your industry. All Directories' publications and sites provide a wealth of information for research or marketing, and are used by public and corporate libraries, educational institutions, government departments, corporations and SMEs across the country. You are here: Home News Access the latest company news and announcements distributed through Medianet. Business & Finance 16/07/2026 22:17 Elliptic launches next-generation Continuous Monitoring, giving crypto compliance teams a live view of customer risk without the flood of alerts. The only monitoring solution on the market that detects the full range of risk-changing events, not just label changes, and lets teams configure alerts to only what matters, cutting manual rescreening and alert triage by up to 75% NEW YORK-BUSINESS WIRE- Elliptic, the global leader in digital asset decisioning, today launched the next generation of Continuous Monitoring, a solution that gives crypto compliance teams a continuously accurate view of customer risk rather than a picture frozen at the last screening. Elliptic's Continuous Monitoring is the most comprehensive risk monitoring solution on the market, and the only one to pair the industry's broadest event detection with fully configurable alerting. It is available to compliance teams today. "Monitoring obligations on MLROs are getting more stringent, putting both their companies and, sometimes, themselves at risk. Existing monitoring solutions fail twice over: They leave exposure gaps by only alerting on obvious triggers like label changes while missing the rest. On the exposure they do catch, they fire so indiscriminately that teams drown in alerts that don't matter. We've built Continuous Monitoring to cover the full range of events that change a customer's risk, and to alert only when it matters, fully configurable to their own rules," said Jackson Hull, CTO and COO at Elliptic. Continuous Monitoring matters because, a customer's crypto risk does not stay still after onboarding. For example, a wallet scored 0.5 out of 10 at onboarding can send funds to a darknet marketplace six months later and become a 10. The original screening was not wrong. But without a rescreen, the compliance team has no way of knowing the changes to the wallet score. Manually rescreening every enrolled entity to find the few that have moved is not viable at the volume teams operate at today. The regulatory, reputational and operational cost of missing a genuine change is significant. Until now, existing solutions have not solved this. Label-based monitoring only alerts when a provider changes their label on a connected address, but risk can change without any label changing at all. A significant inflow, a new transaction, a fresh connection to an illicit actor: none of these trigger a label change, and will go undetected. Existing legacy solutions compensate by notifying on everything, regardless of whether it represents genuine risk. Compliance teams report such a volume of notifications that the alerts that actually matter get buried. Three things set Continuous Monitoring apart: it detects the full range of risk-changing events rather than label changes alone, it is fully configurable to each customer's own risk rules, and it alerts teams only on what they have defined as material. Continuous Monitoring is built differently. It covers the full range of events that can change a screening's outcome, not just label changes. For example: material changes in inflow or outflow; a screened address changing or merging into a different cluster; a label change on a counterparty; a label change several hops from the screened address; and a direct label change on the screened address. With the widest range of risk-changing events, Elliptic's Continuous Monitoring catches what legacy monitoring solutions miss. Alongside event detection, every enrolled wallet and transaction is rescreened on a fixed schedule, so nothing slips through between events. When either layer triggers, it runs a complete risk recalculation against the customer's own risk rules. Not a label check or a generic score, but a full screen. Elliptic's Continuous Monitoring leads the market in how it handles alerts. Customers configure exactly what generates a notification across four levers: risk-score thresholds, risk-score deltas, specific risk rules and screening-type filters. Individual screenings can be excluded entirely, removing alerts on entities that are no longer relevant. When a rescreen runs but does not meet notification criteria, the updated score appears in Lens for review. The system is always working. Teams are alerted only on what they have defined as material, and hear from the system only when they need to, freeing them to spend the time they save on higher-value oversight work. Continuous Monitoring is available today, please see here to book a demo. About Elliptic Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning. Connectweb has built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting cryptoasset data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy. Its platform's unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of its data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs. Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow Connectweb on LinkedIn and X. Contact details: Media Rachel Matthews Global Marketing and Communications Director, Elliptic [email protected] ConnectWeb. ConnectWeb is Australia's leading publisher of biographical data, directories and specialist newsletters. With ConnectWeb you gain access to its comprehensive database of contacts and companies in media, government and associations. Connect with Connectweb.