By ยท ยท last updated 2026-08-08

What the OFAC Enforcement Data Shows

A data-driven read of the OFAC enforcement record: settlement sizes, the screening gap, the crypto cases, and what the pattern means for agents.

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The enforcement record is the best dataset on what screening gaps cost. Read across the cases, three patterns dominate.

Pattern 1: Volume compounds

Binance ($968M OFAC portion), Standard Chartered ($132M), Societe Generale ($53.9M) - each settlement scales with transaction volume. Thousands of small violations compound into hundreds of millions. An agent executing hundreds of payments is the same shape at machine speed.

Pattern 2: The gap is always the same

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Kraken, Bittrex, Poloniex, Bitfinex, BitPay, Ripple, EtherDelta - every case traces to screening that did not run before settlement. Not exotic fraud: a missing pre-transaction check.

Pattern 3: The assets change, the rule doesn't

Mixers (Tornado Cash, Blender, Sinbad), exchanges (Garantex), DeFi (EtherDelta) - new rails, same obligation. The asset class does not change the prohibition.

The agent implication

The enforcement data is the argument for the screen: one call, sub-100 ms, before every payment. The enforcement dataset tracks the record.

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