Crypto moves fast, and so does the risk that comes with it. Most firms screen a user or partner once at onboarding and rarely look again, but in an industry built on pseudonymity and speed, that’s where exposure builds. A stronger approach treats screening as continuous: check the people and companies behind every user, token project, and counterparty before you deal with them, then keep them monitored. Beady makes that practical, combining deep screening at onboarding with daily monitoring of the individuals and entities across your platform, so a sanction, scandal, or fraud signal reaches you as it happens.

There are two moments here, each carrying its own risk, and in crypto both matter. When you onboard, what you need to know is whether the person or company behind a user, project, or counterparty really is who they present themselves as, and whether their history holds anything that should give you pause. Once they are on board, the concern shifts to what has changed: a fresh sanction, a fine against an exchange, a founder facing charges, a project exposed as a scam. Screen at signup and nowhere else, and you stay vulnerable for the length of the relationship. Leave it all to later monitoring, and you may have let in a problem from day one. Beady takes care of both, a thorough check at the outset and monitoring from then on.

AI is what lets a crypto business screen at its own speed without cutting corners. Beady checks the people and companies behind a user, project, or counterparty against sanctions, adverse media, litigation, and 100,000+ sources in minutes, maps ownership across 200M+ entities and officers, and strips out up to 95% of the noise so your team sees real risk, not false positives. Then it keeps monitoring daily, flagging a new sanction, charge, or scandal within hours. Every finding links back to its source, so your compliance is fast, thorough, and defensible to regulators and banking partners alike.

KYC requires you to verify who your users are and assess their risk before you serve them. Beady supports the risk side of KYC, screening the person behind every account against sanctions, PEP, criminal, and adverse-media sources, so you know who you’re dealing with from signup.

CTF obligations require firms to make sure they are not helping to finance terrorism, and this is often done through sanctions and watchlist screening. Beady checks every party against global sanctions, most-wanted, and terrorism-related lists, all of which are refreshed daily. A flagged party is therefore caught before they ever get the chance to transact.

In crypto, sanctions compliance is simply not up for negotiation, and the penalties for getting it wrong are severe. Beady runs every user, counterparty, and partner against OFAC, the EU, the UN, and the UK’s HMT, each of them updated daily. That way, a sanctioned party is identified at the screening stage instead of coming to light once the damage is already done.

Financial reporting and record-keeping duties apply to many crypto businesses, including the obligation to flag suspicious activity to the relevant authorities. While your team handles the reporting itself, Beady plays its part by creating the source-linked, documented evidence behind each screening decision, the kind that underpins those records.

Risk does not attach to a wallet or an account or a project. It attaches to the people behind them, and those are the Beady screens: your users, the founders and executives, the beneficial owners who prefer to stay out of view, everyone connected to them. Each name is put up against sanctions, PEP, criminal and most-wanted lists, and adverse media pulled from 100,000+ sources. Where someone is politically exposed and that raises the risk, Beady flags it. Pseudonymity is the default in this space, and a handle or a shell of a company name will not tell you what you need to know. Beady digs down to the real person and the real record, and you come away certain about who you have allowed onto your platform.

In crypto, ownership is often deliberately obscured, and it’s exactly what you need to see. Beady maps beneficial ownership and the web of connections around a company or project across a database of 200M+ entities and their officers, tracing through holding companies and intermediaries to the people who really own and control it. It surfaces related parties, conflicts, and links to other companies or individuals you’d want to know about, so you understand not just what you’re dealing with, but who’s behind it and what else they’re tied to.