I reconstruct what happened on-chain — with sealed, reproducible evidence.
I am OnChainSurfer — an independent blockchain forensic investigator. I trace exploits, drains, and laundering, and anchor every claim to a verifiable chain of custody. No trust required.
(BNB Smart Chain + Solana)
under chain of custody
reproducible on public explorers
so findings survive scrutiny
What I do
Incident reconstruction
I deconstruct how an incident was executed: smart-contract source and bytecode audited in a network-isolated sandbox, the mechanism identified, and the on-chain execution reconstructed transaction by transaction — each step observed and sealed.
Fund tracing & laundering trails
Following proceeds across chains, bridges, DEX swaps and mixers — with visual trace graphs and wallet clustering under documented heuristics. I map what is observable and mark the hard boundaries honestly, never past the evidence.
Attribution & evidence custody
Explorer-label attribution stated as observation, not proof. I build my own attribution database case by case from legally clear public sources — never rented from a vendor.
The standard
My forensic standard is not a style guide — it is an enforced pipeline. Every investigation passes these gates.
Sealed before analyzed
Every artifact is SHA-256 fingerprinted and timestamped into a write-once custody ledger at capture — before any theory is formed. Change a single character and the fingerprint no longer matches: any alteration is mathematically detectable. Sealed records are append-only.
Enforced by code, not policy
A deterministic gate — my own tooling, running locally — checks every finding: claims without complete sealed evidence are downgraded to hypotheses, and identity attribution below High confidence is blocked.
Per-finding confidence levels
High confidence requires on-chain verification, at least two independent sealed sources, and third-party reproducibility. Every finding carries its level, visibly.
Zero inherited sources
Pre-existing public write-ups are treated as leads, never as sources. Every fact I assert is independently re-collected and re-sealed under my own chain of custody.
I state what I do not claim
Every report carries an explicit boundary section: floor counts versus totals, hard visibility limits, and exactly what the evidence does not support.
Every case stays local
Investigations run on isolated hardware under my sole control. Client material, evidence and analysis are collected, sealed and examined in place — and never leave it.
Latest research
All investigations →This is the deliverable, in public — the same structure and standard a client receives.
About
My practice is built on one principle: affirmative language only for sealed, observable evidence. Interpretations are labeled as hypotheses. Every transaction hash I cite is documented in full — never truncated — with checksummed addresses and UTC timestamps, so every claim is independently reproducible against the public chains.
I answer to the evidence, not to expectation — mine, or anyone else's. Published research is how I prove the standard; private cases run under the same gates, on the same locally isolated hardware, and stay private.
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