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HTX rotates crypto wallets every few hours across 4 blockchains to dodge sanctions screening. Why static blocklists fail and what comes next.
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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.