Crypto Compliance Essentials: AML, KYC and the Travel Rule

About this course

Crypto compliance is not optional. Regulators are enforcing AML/KYC, money transmitter licensing, the Travel Rule, and sanctions screening — with criminal and civil penalties for the businesses that get it wrong. If you’re building a crypto business, you need to understand these obligations, and you need to implement them correctly from day one.

This course teaches you how.

Over 24 lessons across six modules and a capstone project, you’ll learn:
– AML/KYC fundamentals and how to design a customer due diligence (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD) process
– US money transmitter licensing under FinCEN and the ongoing SAR, CTR, and record-keeping obligations that follow
– The Travel Rule: what it is, the technology used to implement it (TRISA, Shyft, and others), and how to test and audit your implementation
– OFAC sanctions screening, how to build a screening process, and how to manage false positives and blocked transactions without stalling legitimate customers
– MiCA and international compliance for EU-facing businesses, plus how compliance works in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan
– How to build and operate a full compliance program: governance and roles, policies and procedures, training and culture, vendor management, and internal audit

Each lesson teaches one idea with a worked example, a hands-on exercise, and a three-line recap, so you finish with artifacts you can use, not just theory. You’ll analyze real enforcement actions — including Ripple Labs’ FinCEN settlement, Chainalysis’s Travel Rule tooling, and the Tornado Cash OFAC designation — to understand exactly what went wrong and how to design controls that avoid the same outcome.

By the end of the course you will be able to: map AML/KYC obligations to your business model and jurisdiction; design a CDD/EDD process; explain, implement, and audit the Travel Rule; conduct and document OFAC and sanctions screening; build a compliance program with policies, procedures, and training; evaluate and integrate third-party compliance vendors; and analyze enforcement actions to avoid similar violations.

The course closes with a capstone project: design a complete compliance program — AML/KYC policy, Travel Rule implementation plan, sanctions screening process, and org chart — for a provided scenario, a US/EU stablecoin issuer. A rubric scores your submission on completeness, regulatory accuracy, and feasibility.

Certificate: Earn your certificate by passing all six module quizzes at 80%+ and scoring 70%+ on the capstone. Your certificate includes your name, completion date, and course title, and is shareable as a PDF or a LinkedIn badge.

Who this is for: Founders, operations leads, and compliance officers at crypto startups, exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and payment companies who must build or oversee a compliance program. No legal background required — this is education, not legal advice.

What you’ll get: 24+ lessons, six module quizzes, a capstone project, and a shareable certificate. Dated 2026 to reflect current AML/KYC, Travel Rule, OFAC, and MiCA requirements.