Glossary

Compliance

Travel rule

The travel rule is a requirement that information identifying the sender and the recipient travels with a transfer of funds, including transfers of crypto assets between regulated providers.

In practice

The rule comes from the Financial Action Task Force, the body that sets global anti-money-laundering standards, and each country applies it through its own law. It started with bank wires and now covers providers that move crypto assets for customers.

In practice, a provider sending a stablecoin transfer has to know who the sender is and who the recipient is, and pass that information to the receiving provider. You may also be asked whether a destination wallet is one you control yourself or one held at an exchange.

On Stables, travel rule handling is part of the transfer flow. The docs describe what is collected and when.

Travel rule in the docs

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