KYTGate and Elliptic Lens, compared
Elliptic Lens is Elliptic's wallet and transaction screening product, built on Elliptic's own blockchain data and sold through sales and cloud marketplaces. KYTGate is the decision and evidence layer a broker puts in front of every crypto deposit and withdrawal. Here is where each is stronger, from each company's own public pages as read on 30 September 2026.
Where Elliptic is stronger
- Their own blockchain data across 60+ chains, with a 0 to 10 risk score.
- An AI copilot that summarises cases.
- Certifications and a long record with exchanges and financial institutions.
Where KYTGate is different
- A live check of the issuer's own freeze list at every decision. Elliptic offers freeze tooling to stablecoin issuers; that is a different product.
- Signed, Bitcoin-anchored decision records that a regulator can verify without either vendor.
- Replay, back-testing and shadow mode for policy changes.
- Published prices and a free sandbox.
Feature by feature
| Feature | KYTGate | Elliptic Lens |
|---|---|---|
| Own attribution data | No proprietary attribution database. Public sources (OFAC, UK and EU lists, Tether and Circle contracts) plus, if you have one, your own Chainalysis or Elliptic licence called with your key | Yes, across 60+ chains |
| Risk output | No single score by design: a coverage matrix shows what was and was not checked for each decision | Risk score from 0 to 10 |
| Sanctions lists | OFAC, UK and EU lists, refreshed every six hours; the list snapshot is recorded in each decision | Not described in their public material |
| Live Tether/Circle freeze check | Yes: reads the USDT and USDC issuer contracts live on seven networks, plus a public freeze tracker | Freeze tooling is offered to issuers; a freeze check for receivers is not described |
| Signed, independently verifiable decision record | Yes: every decision is signed (Ed25519), batched daily into a Merkle root anchored to Bitcoin, verifiable offline without us | Records the rationale and evidence for decisions |
| Replay, back-test, shadow mode | Yes: replay a past decision, back-test a policy change, and run new rules in shadow mode | Not described in their public material |
| SAR/STR drafting | Draft STR/SAR as JSON, goAML v4 XML and a narrative pack | Copilot summary reports |
| Wallet ownership proof | Yes: signed message or micro-transfer test, including Tron and Bitcoin | Not described in their public material |
| Travel Rule | Records Travel Rule data your processor provides; does not send Travel Rule messages | Through a partnership with Notabene |
| Certifications | No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certificate yet | Yes |
| Pricing | Published: free sandbox, then $99, $299 and $799 a month | Through sales or cloud marketplaces |
| Self-service start | Yes: free sandbox with an API key from one e-mail link | Through a sales conversation |
Using both
KYTGate can call Elliptic with your own licence key, so Elliptic's risk view sits inside a KYTGate decision with its own signed record.
Sources
- Elliptic Lens product page
- Elliptic Lens on AWS Marketplace
- KYTGate: pricing, methodology, anchors, freeze tracker.
Read from public pages on 30 September 2026. “Not described in their public material” means we could not find it there, not that the product lacks it. Elliptic and Elliptic Lens are trademarks of their owner; this page is not endorsed by them. If anything here is wrong or out of date, write to hello@kytgate.com and we will correct it within one working day.
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KYTGate screens each crypto deposit and withdrawal against the OFAC, UK and EU lists and the USDT/USDC issuer freezes, decides under your written policy, and keeps a signed record an auditor can check without us.
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