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Why compliance teams care about 'peel chains'

A peel chain is when a large balance moves through a long sequence of addresses, peeling off a small amount at each hop while the bulk continues onward — a common obfuscation pattern for both stolen funds and simple UTXO wallet behavior. Distinguishing genuine peel-chain laundering from ordinary wallet housekeeping is one of the harder calls in on-chain investigations.

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