Scorechain is able to provide AML/CTF for any Dex trades
Decentralized Finance (aka. DeFi) is widely used today and is becoming more and more popular in the past
few months. DeFi can be defined as all the financial applications which are using blockchains and
cryptocurrencies with the same goal: to disrupt the financial intermediaries while making finance more
accessible to everyone.

The most popular DeFi applications include Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs), yield farming, lending
platforms, stablecoins, wrapped coins and prediction markets. Most of the use is based on the Ethereum
Blockchain.

Dex (decentralized exchange) is a blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) online service that allows users tomake direct cryptocurrency transactions between each other.

Unlike a centralized exchange, a Dex doesn’t identify its users and it doesn’t store their funds. It does not act
as an intermediary but rather as a protocol that enables transactions. All data are registered in the distributed
ledger and the Dex provides the service to match the needs of buying and selling of the participants.
The Luxembourgish transaction surveillance company is able to deanonymize transactions that are led
through DEX to identify source and destination of funds passing through the platforms.

Scorechain Ethereum Analytics Platform is able to follow the assets even if they are swapped through a
decentralized exchange platform (DEX). Now users can carry out a Risk-AML analysis on the provenance
and destination of one cryptocurrency converted to another through the DEXs.

Scorechain provides AML Risk-Scoring on swaps origin and destination of funds
Even the most complicated transaction made through decentralized exchanges can be analysed through
Scorechain Blockchain Analytics.
Scorechain users can see the ‘Swap input’ as the initial cryptocurrencies used in the transaction and are able
to identify the origin of the cryptocurrency used. The same Risk-AML analysis can be done for ‘Swap output’
as the converted cryptocurrencies received in return via the DEX. Multiple DEX platforms are also spotted
and analysed.

On top of that, users receive a Risk-AML Scoring following their customized risk-assessment to apply the
risk-based approach asked by the international compliance standards.

By tracking the swap through DEXs, this new functionality provides a powerful tool for the compliance team
to analyse any suspicious DEX transactions and to reduce the criminal activities in DeFi. Now criminals know
that their attempt to launder the dirty funds via DEXs is in vain under the crypto RegTech company's radar.

"We have worked hard to read through the DEX. It also shows to regulators that some AML/CTF controls can
be performed. Our goal is also to make sure DEXs are not always assimilated to the biggest money
laundering machine. When suspicious transactions are identified, it is now flagged and immediately reported
to the competent authorities by our users." said Lisa Boussard our Head of Marketing.

Scorechain’s Dex trade enhanced analysis feature has played an important role in the investigation of the
recent Kucoin’s hack. Indeed by tracking DEX transactions Scorechain proved hackers used Dex to launder
the funds and converted the jackpot.

The Defi frenzy under the radar of regulators
According to the statistics, since June 2020, the trade volume started to surge continuously to reach a peak
in October with nearly $12.5 billion locked in the DeFi market, an increase of 1200% 1 in 5 months. Uniswap,
the most popular DEX at the moment, had more volume during the month of August than Coinbase, the most
valuable Centralized Exchange of the whole crypto-ecosystem. All of this shows that this phenomenon
cannot be ignored anymore by regulators and compliant officers.

This increasing use has led to putting DeFi under the radar of regulators and governments. They start to
consider this new practice as 'heaven' for criminal activity since most of the platforms which allow this kind of
practice lack Know-Your-Customer (KYC) or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) procedures.

Besides, the recent draft of the European Commission MiCa could ban EU citizens access to DeFi projects.
At least if they do not comply with the proposed and very strong legal requirements. This is the case for
decentralized stablecoins (i.e. 20% of the DeFi market) since their decentralized nature will make it very
difficult to comply with the obligations imposed on the issuance of crypto-assets.