Who we are, and why you can trust us without 'guarantees'
In a niche where you have most likely been burned once already, the hardest question isn't 'what can you do'. It's 'who are you in the first place?'. So don't take our word for any of it: everything below is something you can verify yourself.
What Onyx AML is
We're an independent blockchain-forensics and AML dispute-resolution practice serving the CIS market (UA/RU/EN). We work keyless: every finding comes from open smart-contract and public-ledger data, with no proprietary databases and no access to your keys. We are NOT a cryptocurrency, NOT an exchange, and NOT affiliated with the Onyx coin (Onyxcoin/XCN) or with JP Morgan Onyx. The names coincide; there is no connection.
Why trust us: 5 verifiable facts
We publish our own data, not just promises
Our Freeze Radar collects Tether blacklist events straight from the smart contracts (2 375 events as of today) and publishes them openly, with the methodology attached. A service that hides its data can promise anything; we show ours.
Our engine is tested against Tether itself
An independent backtest: from a random sample of addresses Tether froze, our engine flagged 30% on behavior alone, WITHOUT reading the blacklist. That is an honest coverage metric rather than a 'prediction', computed on our own data and refreshed weekly.
Every report carries a hash and dated sources
The forensic report carries the engine version, the as-of date of each dataset (OFAC/scam-DBs/labels) and a SHA-256 of its content. The same snapshot yields the same hash, so the findings can be audited instead of taken on trust.
We deliberately decline some cases
We decline sanctioned and knowingly illicit flows, and it is written plainly in our rules. A service that takes on everything doesn't protect a bona-fide client; our filter is on your side.
We give no guarantees, and that is the honest position
The unblocking decision belongs to the exchange's compliance team, not to us. Anyone promising 'guaranteed recovery for an upfront fee' is a scammer, and we say so in every guide. We're accountable for the quality of the forensics, the dossiers and the communication, which is what actually moves a decision.
How to tell us apart from 'recovery' scammers
- We never DM you first offering to 'recover your funds'.
- We never ask for an upfront fee 'for a guaranteed result'. Payment is staged and starts after a free assessment.
- We never ask for your seed phrase, private keys or passwords. No legitimate service needs them.
- We tell you 'no' honestly when your situation can't be helped.
If anyone 'from Onyx' breaks these rules, it isn't us. The only official contact details are the ones on this site.
What we're honest about (our limits)
We don't have Chainalysis's proprietary clusters and we don't pretend to. Our attribution depth is smaller, but it is transparent: two hops plus peel-chain tracing, sanctions oracles, the blacklist, scam databases, and our own graph that grows with every analysis. Our moat isn't a secret database. It is transparency, plus CIS data of our own that the majors don't have: fresh P2P crowdsourcing and a live freeze corpus.
Start with a free assessment
Describe your situation and we'll give you an honest answer: what is realistic, how long it takes, what it costs. No obligation.
Free preliminary case assessment
Describe your situation and we will give you an honest assessment: what is realistically possible, how long it takes and what it costs. No "guaranteed unlocks": they do not exist, because the decision sits with compliance.