The gap the enterprise tools leave
Chainalysis and Elliptic are built for exchanges and large institutions: powerful, but sold through annual contracts and sales-led onboarding that a 3–20-person CASP, an EMI with incidental crypto flows, or an audit firm running a single engagement cannot justify. The fallback for those firms is manual OFAC checks in a spreadsheet — slow, error-prone and hard to defend. Ichnos exists to close that gap.
Same job, different shape
Ichnos targets the same outcome — screen wallets and counterparties, and evidence it for your auditor — but delivered self-serve, per-check, with combined entity + wallet screening and EU hosting, instead of a six-figure platform commitment. You pay for the checks you run, not for seats or a minimum.
What you get
- Combined entity + wallet screening in one request — the counterparty and the address together, powered by our own PEP/sanctions engine.
- Official-source sanctions data — the OFAC SDN and EU consolidated lists, which publish crypto addresses directly — with honest certainty tiers, not black-box scores.
- Audit-ready reports — every check yields a signed, timestamped PDF and CSV recording its data sources and every match.
- Self-serve credits — sign up, run a free trial, top up when you need more. No sales call, no procurement cycle.
- EU data residency — hosted in the EU, GDPR export and erasure built in.
Who it is for. Small and licence-seeking CASPs, EMIs with crypto flows, and the compliance and audit firms that serve them — including firms working toward a CySEC CASP registration.
Honest about what it is
Ichnos is not a like-for-like replacement for a full enterprise chain-analytics suite, and it does not pretend to be. It is the right-sized tool to run the screening a supervised EU CASP actually has to do for MiCA and the Travel Rule, keep the evidence, and move on — without an enterprise budget. You remain the obliged entity for your AML decisions.