For product and engineering teams
Challenges to address
For a fintech or Web3 product team, a useful evaluation starts with the decision your user or reviewer needs to make. Work backward to the information required, the place it would appear, and the behavior expected when it is unavailable. This page frames integration and review questions; it does not promise a supported protocol, SDK, API, or automated product decision.
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Turning a user need into a data request
Describe the question in the user’s workflow before selecting desired fields or endpoints. Identify which information is essential and which is contextual.
- A wallet requires contextual information
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Handling incomplete information
Define what a reviewer or user should see when information is missing or ambiguous. Ask to compare those requirements with available response behavior.
- A response contains uncertainty
- An API request fails or returns incomplete data
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Sharing responsibility across teams
Product, engineering, and reviewers may each own part of the process. Explain the handovers, access expectations, and questions each team needs answered.
- A user-facing workflow requires human review
- A finding must be transferred into case management
These are illustrative scenarios to frame a discussion. No SDK, protocol, or automated decision is confirmed by this page.
For your engineering team
An integration workspace
These are illustrative placeholders only. No real endpoint, authentication method, SDK, or schema is stated here; bring these questions to the Risk & Compliance API discussion.
{BASE_URL}/{VERSION}/{RISK_SIGNAL_PATH}Authorization: <credential> ••••••••- subject
- network
- options (optional)
Request
JSON request body{
"subject": "<wallet-address>",
"network": "<network-id>"
}Structured response
200 · usable{
"risk_result": "<value>",
"confidence": "<level>",
"context": {
"sources": ["<source-ref>"]
},
"warnings": [],
"timestamp": "<iso-8601>",
"version": "{VERSION}"
}Illustrative error response
{
"status": "error",
"warnings": ["<validation message, e.g. missing required field>"],
"version": "{VERSION}"
}Illustrative placeholders. See the Risk & Compliance API page for the fuller concept.
From a user action to a record
A product workflow
A blockchain-intelligence check is one step inside a larger product experience. This illustrates where it sits, and where a person may need to step in.
User action
A user does something in your product.
Application data request
Your application decides it needs context.
Blockchain-intelligence context
A request goes to the illustrative API.
Result or exception
A structured response, or a defined exception.
User-facing explanation
Your product explains the result in its own words.
Human review when required
A person looks at cases that need judgement.
Documented outcome
The result and the decision are recorded.
Who is in control. The customer application controls its own user experience and its final decisions. A response, whether usable or an exception, is context for that application, not a decision made on its behalf.
Illustrative flow. The exact contract and UX are defined by your product.
Product topics
Relevant capabilities to evaluate
These product topics are relevant to the discussion. Follow each link for evaluation questions and the scope still requiring verification; a link does not confirm an available integration.
- Application request
- Risk or wallet context
- Exception handling
- Human review
- Managed record
- Integration contract
Risk & Compliance API
Review any available endpoint specification, authentication approach, and response states against a defined integration brief.
Explore Risk & Compliance API - Address review
Wallet Screening
Discuss address-review context for a specific product flow, with coverage and output behavior explicitly subject to verification.
Explore Wallet Screening - Ownership and escalation
Case Management
Explore how a review could be organized when a question needs human follow-up, without assuming a ready-made case integration.
Explore Case Management
Design for every state
Response and error handling
Your application will receive more than successful responses. Decide up front how each state looks to a user, and make sure uncertainty is never presented as a safe result.
- Successful response
A structured response was returned.
- Do
- Show the result with its confidence and any warnings.
- Avoid
- Drop the warnings or confidence.
- Partial information
Some of the expected response is missing.
- Do
- Show it as partial and let the user or reviewer know what is missing.
- Avoid
- Fill the gap with a guess.
- No relevant information
A valid response found nothing to report.
- Do
- Say plainly that nothing relevant was found.
- Avoid
- Present it as a clean or safe result.
- Validation failure
The request was not accepted as sent.
- Do
- Tell the user which input needs fixing.
- Avoid
- Retry unchanged.
- Authentication failure
The credential was not accepted.
- Do
- Alert an administrator; do not expose this to the end user.
- Avoid
- Retry in a loop.
- Service unavailable
No answer could be given at this time.
- Do
- Show a pending state and retry with back-off.
- Avoid
- Treat an outage as a clear result.
- Unsupported request
The request is outside what is currently supported.
- Do
- Explain the limit to the user or log it for engineering.
- Avoid
- Silently ignore the request.
- Human review required
The result needs a person before it is used.
- Do
- Route to a reviewer and hold the user-facing outcome.
- Avoid
- Show a result before review completes.
The rule for every state. Missing, partial, failed, or unavailable information is never a safe result to show as though it were clear. Only a successful response should be read as a result, and even then it supports a decision made in your product, not a decision FinTrace makes for you.
Illustrative handling guidance. Exact states and formats are confirmed in the documentation.
Who defines what
Team ownership
An integration touches product, engineering, and review. This grid illustrates how a product manager, a frontend engineer, a backend engineer, a compliance reviewer, and a security administrator might share ownership.
| Role | User requirements | Data contract | Integration behaviour | Error handling | Human-review route | Access controls | Final decision logic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product manager Owns the user problem and the product outcome. | Leads | Contributes | Contributes | Contributes | Contributes | Contributes | |
| Frontend engineer Builds what the user sees and how states are shown. | Contributes | Leads | Leads | ||||
| Backend engineer Builds the integration and its data handling. | Leads | Leads | Contributes | Contributes | |||
| Compliance reviewer Reviews findings and sets the review route. | Contributes | Contributes | Contributes | Leads | Leads | ||
| Security administrator Manages access, credentials, and environments. | Leads |
Illustrative roles and ownership. The exact roles and permissions your organization needs are confirmed during evaluation.
A demo outline
An illustrative review workflow
Use this outline to explain your process during a demo. It describes human evaluation steps, not confirmed software automation.
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Define the user need
State what the user is trying to accomplish.
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Identify required information
List what your product needs to answer that.
- 3
Agree on inputs and outputs
Write down the contract before building against it.
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Examine available interfaces
Ask for a demonstration of what actually exists.
- 5
Test normal and exception states
Check success, partial, and failure paths.
- 6
Define reviewer ownership
Decide who reviews an uncertain result.
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Validate the complete user experience
Confirm the full journey, not just the API call.
Illustrative seven-step sequence with sample interfaces.
- Keep in view · 01
Describe one user journey
Use a fictional or approved sample to identify where a blockchain-related question arises and who needs the answer.
- Keep in view · 02
Define the integration and review contract
Specify required inputs, outputs, response states, and human-review points. Compare these with verified product documentation.
- Keep in view · 03
Evaluate before connecting
Ask for an available demonstration and document open questions about access, limits, and expected behavior before planning an integration.
Evaluation objectives
Potential benefits to validate
These are intended outcomes for your evaluation, not measured product results. Compare any available demonstration with your own requirements before drawing a conclusion.
A more testable product brief
Aim for requirements that your team can compare directly with an available demonstration or documented interface.
Clearer user-facing explanations
Assess whether proposed output would let your product explain what is known, unknown, or awaiting review.
Better-defined ownership
Validate that engineering and reviewers understand their respective responsibilities. No development-time saving or integration availability is promised.
Product verification
Scope and evidence still needed
[Placeholder: verified APIs, endpoints, SDKs if any, supported networks and protocols, response behavior, access arrangements, and integration examples.]
- Ask · 01
Available APIs and endpoints
Which endpoints actually exist for your use case?
- Ask · 02
SDK availability
Is there tooling for your language or stack?
- Ask · 03
Supported networks and protocols
Which networks and protocols can be queried?
- Ask · 04
Request and response schemas
Where is the verified schema, field by field?
- Ask · 05
Authentication and access
How is a call authenticated, and how is access granted?
- Ask · 06
Error behaviour
How are failures and partial results represented?
- Ask · 07
Rate or operating limits
What limits apply, and how are they communicated?
- Ask · 08
Test environment
Is there an environment for testing with fictional data?
- Ask · 09
Human-review integration
How would a review step connect to your product?
- Ask · 10
Documentation and support
Where is the reference documentation, and who supports integration?
These are requirements to confirm, not guaranteed capabilities.
Before your demo
Questions from Fintech and Web3 Companies
Is there an SDK for our technology stack?
No SDK or language support is confirmed. Ask for currently available developer tooling and tested documentation.
Can we build automated decisions around an API?
An API contract and decision behavior must be verified first. This page does not promise automated decisions or suitability for your use case.
Can we get credentials through this site?
No. This public website does not issue platform credentials. Ask the team about any available evaluation and access process.
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Tell us about your user need, your inputs and outputs, and the states your product must handle.
