How ZeroDelta uses Range to screen institutional wallets

Institutional digital-asset trading depends on knowing what is on the other side of a transaction. For a clearing house settling onchain, the counterparty on every order is a wallet, and the wallet has a history.

ZeroDelta, built by Glacis Labs, is a digital-asset clearing house that matches institutional orders and supports settlement across multiple blockchains. Institutions receive a quote before signing, and the settlement contracts enforce the quoted minimum output; an order that cannot meet it is not filled.

A wallet can carry exposure to sanctioned entities, illicit funds or suspicious onchain activity regardless of who controls it and if the entity is known. ZeroDelta needed a way to assess that risk on every order before a wallet participates in its settlement flow.

Adding wallet screening to institutional order flow

ZeroDelta wanted to give its institutional partners confidence in the wallets using its infrastructure without building and maintaining its own blockchain risk intelligence system.

Maintaining that system would mean tracking sanctions updates, monitoring illicit activity and keeping wallet attribution data current as new threats emerge.

Instead, ZeroDelta integrated Range's Risk API directly into its wallet connection process.

Every order on ZeroDelta names a paying wallet and a destination. Both are screened at quote and again at fill, and Range's Risk API supplies the onchain risk assessment.

The assessment also provides context behind the risk signals, helping ZeroDelta understand why a wallet may require further review.

This gives ZeroDelta access to blockchain risk intelligence within its existing order flow, without requiring institutions to complete a separate screening process.

Keeping compliance decisions in ZeroDelta's hands

ZeroDelta uses the risk information returned by Range to inform its own wallet acceptance decisions.

Range provides the screening data and the underlying risk signals. ZeroDelta remains responsible for applying its internal policies and determining how to handle wallets that require additional review.

This distinction is important for an institutional clearing house. Its partners need to understand how wallet risk is assessed, while ZeroDelta needs to retain control over the decisions made within its platform.

The screen runs at quote and again at fill, so in the event a wallet becomes risky after quoting, it is stopped before settlement.

The integration also allows ZeroDelta to use Range's existing risk intelligence infrastructure rather than maintain sanctions data, wallet attribution and screening capabilities internally.

"Every wallet on a ZeroDelta order is screened at quote and again at fill. We wanted that signal inside the order path, not a separate onboarding step, and we did not want to maintain our own sanctions lists and attribution data ourselves. Range gives us the intelligence. The decision stays ours." Jacob Blish, Co-Founder, Glacis Labs

Built for institutional settlement

For ZeroDelta, wallet screening is part of operating infrastructure that banks, funds and market makers can evaluate during due diligence.

With Range's Risk API, ZeroDelta can:

• Assess wallet risk on every order. Screen wallets for sanctions exposure and suspicious onchain activity before settlement.
• Understand flagged activity. Access risk signals and supporting context to inform internal reviews.
• Maintain control over decisions. Apply its own compliance policies using the intelligence provided by Range.
• Rely on dedicated risk infrastructure. Use Range's blockchain intelligence without developing and maintaining a separate screening system.

The result is a wallet screening process integrated into ZeroDelta's existing integrated into ZeroDelta's existing order flow, with the risk information needed to support its internal compliance decisions.

Add wallet screening to your platform

Range's Risk API helps financial institutions, clearing houses and digital-asset platforms assess wallet risk before transactions take place.

If you're building institutional settlement infrastructure and need wallet screening within your existing workflows, get in touch.