NautLense
The compliance engine for digital assets. Banking-grade sanctions screening, multi-jurisdiction Travel Rule, cryptographic wallet verification and emergency lockdown, with no middleman. Live and in production use.
01 / The build
Compliance that runs before the transaction, not after it.
A full end-to-end check of the wallets involved in a transaction, screened against sanctions lists in real time, with Travel Rule data attached where it is required.
A compliance officer gets one view of the whole posture rather than five dashboards, and emergency controls sit on top: freeze, halt, escalate, without waiting for an engineer.
Why I built it
Crypto compliance is usually bolted on after the product works, which is the one order that guarantees it will be painful. Regulated operators need the check to happen inside the payment path, not in a report written the following month.
02 / Design decisions
The trade-offs are part of the story.
01Screen inside the path, not after
The check runs before the transaction settles. It costs latency on every transfer, and it is the only design where a bad payment is prevented rather than discovered.
02Built for the compliance officer, not the engineer
The primary user is the person who has to sign. That drove the interface far more than technical elegance did, and it is why the posture view exists at all.
03Not open source
Screening logic and rule sets stay closed. Publishing them would mostly help the people the system exists to catch.