How these crypto topics fit together

The crypto topics on this page are ordered by the question that brings people here rather than by subject. Money that has disappeared leads to tracing and to cash-out points. A platform that will not pay out leads to fraud and to reporting. A bank or an accountant asking questions leads to origin and valuation. A dispute that has already started leads to evidence and to expert reports. Most files touch two of those areas, and the second one usually only becomes visible once the first has been worked through.

Reading them in that order also sets expectations, which is the part that matters most. Tracing can establish a route and the point at which funds left the chain, and it can rarely put a name to an address on its own. Origin work can reconstruct a position from transaction data, and it cannot invent a statement that was never issued. Evidence work can make a finding verifiable, and it cannot make an uncertain attribution certain. These crypto topics therefore describe both what is possible and what is not, in the same place.

Each topic links through to the underlying terms, so you can go from the practical question to the definition and back. If you would rather start from a single word you ran into, the glossary is the shorter route.