Crypto-Asset Regulation · glossary
A wallet a person controls with their own keys, with no crypto firm behind it. For a transfer above €1,000 to or from one, Halcyon checks that its own client owns or controls it, for example by a message signed with the wallet's key. Definition: Self-hosted address · Binder §7.5 · Appendix D.2 · Chapter 7
Explained in Chapter 7, AML and the Travel Rule, of Crypto-Asset Regulation.
A signed message is good proof, because only the holder of the key can produce one. Without it, Halcyon cannot tell whether the self-hosted address is its client's. An address looks the same whether it belongs to the client, to a cousin, or to someone paying the client to move money. At €1,000 or below no proof is needed, but monitoring still watches the transfer.Read Chapter 7, AML and the Travel Rule →
Chapter 1 and this glossary are open to everyone; the whole edition is free to read with a free account until 31 January, and it stays open to an account opened by then.Chapter 1 of Crypto-Asset Regulation and this glossary are free to read; the rest of the edition is in the Library, at €12 a month or €79 for a Year Pass.
a distributed-ledger address held by no CASP or other obliged entity, a wallet its holder controls with their own keys (Policy 7);Read the definition in the document →
Related terms
Where this term lives
This term is part of one complete fictional deal, with every document attached and a test after every chapter. Open Crypto-Asset Regulation → · All terms A–Z →