A one-page summary for compliance review

Service

Ketju Research publishes protocol research for financial professionals and sells a subscription service built on it. Every protocol memo and its verdict is public in the Register. Every subscriber gets the same research and the same tools. Ketju sends each subscriber alerts based on the wallets and household facts that the subscriber recorded. The research is general and impersonal. It does not decide whether a real household is eligible, choose a position, or set an amount.

Limits of the service

Ketju does not manage assets, take custody, execute transactions, or make individualized recommendations. Ketju stores only what a subscriber records to run the checks: client names, wallet addresses, recorded securities, and four household facts (US person, investor status, account type, state). Ketju never holds keys, account credentials, or documents. It accepts no compensation from any protocol, chain, or issuer it covers. Ketju’s research is one input to a firm’s own diligence and does not replace it.

Books and records

Every memo is dated. Each memo names its next scheduled review and lists the events that would make Ketju review it sooner. When Ketju revises a memo, the earlier memo stays in the dated archive with the reason for the change. Every protocol Ketju monitors has a memo with the evidence behind its verdict, including the protocols Ketju does not approve and those under review. Ketju names the source and update schedule of all market data.

Author

Jon Ragsdale, in a personal capacity. Ketju Research is independent of and unaffiliated with any advisory firm. No advisory firm has reviewed or endorsed it. The legal entity is 1732 Studios LLC d/b/a Ketju Research.

A sample written procedure for digital asset holdings, for your counsel to adapt: recording holdings, the file per holding, eligibility, monitoring, custody, marketing, books and records, the annual review.

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