A crypto address risk score is a single 0 to 100 number that rolls up sanctions, blacklists, scam reports and on-chain behaviour into one verdict. The whole point is to turn a messy investigation into one decision. Below 25, proceed. Above 50, do not. This page explains what moves the number.
What goes into the number
A good score is not a vibe. It is built from layers, and the layers are weighted, because not every signal is equally serious.
- Direct hits, weighted heaviest. If the address is sanctioned, frozen, or directly reported for fraud, the score jumps straight into the danger band. Nothing else can pull it back down.
- Indirect exposure. Clean address, dirty money. Funds that passed through a mixer, sanctioned exchange or scam wallet a few hops back add risk in proportion to how close and how large that exposure is.
- Behaviour. A wallet created three days ago that received a large sum and forwarded it in minutes scores higher than a two-year-old wallet with steady, normal activity.
That last layer is why two addresses with no blacklist hits at all can still score differently. Pattern matters.
How to read the three bands
Forget the exact digit. What you act on is the band.
- 0 to 25, green. No sanctions, no freeze, no scam links, normal behaviour. Proceed as usual.
- 25 to 50, amber. Something a hop or two back is not clean, or the behaviour looks off. Ask the sender where the funds came from and keep it in writing before you accept.
- 50 to 100, red. Direct exposure to a flagged source. Decline. There is no transfer worth a frozen exchange account or a sanctions problem.
A score of 0 is not a promise of innocence forever. It is a snapshot of right now. A wallet can be clean today and receive flagged funds tomorrow, so check at the moment of the transfer, not a week before.
"Is my own wallet clean?"
The score is not only for checking other people. If you have received crypto from buyers, clients or strangers, your own address can quietly pick up exposure. One transfer from a scam-linked sender, and your wallet now has a hop of bad history attached to it.
Paste your own address to see where you stand before you deposit to an exchange. Better to find a problem on your screen than in a frozen-account email.
The score does not replace judgement. It compresses an hour of tracing into a number you can read in one glance, then act on.
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