AML
Anti-Money-Laundering — the ongoing transaction monitoring and reporting regulated services use to detect illicit funds.
- glossary
AML (Anti-Money-Laundering) is the ongoing transaction screening and reporting that regulated financial and crypto services use to detect and deter illicit funds — monitoring activity against sanctions lists and reporting unusual patterns to authorities such as FinCEN in the US. Where KYC verifies who a user is at onboarding, AML watches what they do afterward. In crypto, regulated stablecoin issuers and custodial services can freeze or blacklist custodial-ownership accounts that fail these compliance checks, while non-custodial protocols generally have no party able to enforce them.
Related keywords
- AML
- Anti-Money-Laundering
- transaction monitoring
- sanctions screening
- compliance
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.