> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pathprotocol.finance/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Trust and compliance > Real-time address screening, smart-contract risk scoring, and pre-allocation gating. Compliance at Path is a real-time gate, not a post-hoc audit. Every pool surfaced to an allocator has cleared address screening and smart-contract risk scoring before it enters the allocation set, and every recommendation is re-checked against the same gates at emit time. This page documents the gates and the runtime behaviour around them. ## Address screening Path screens both pool-side addresses (treasury, oracle, governance multisig, audit-history contributors) and allocator-side addresses (the wallet about to receive a recommendation) against Chainalysis. The screening covers sanctions lists, known illicit-finance indicators, and category-level risk flags. A hit on either side removes the pool from the allocator's available set; the gate is binary, no judgment-call layer. Screening runs on a continuous cadence so newly-listed addresses propagate into the gate without operator intervention, and a hit detected after a pool has been recommended fires a re-check and removes the pool from the active recommendation set. ## Smart-contract risk scoring Every pool contract is scored through GoPlus on a continuous basis. The scoring covers ownership concentration, mint authority, upgradeability surface, oracle integrity, and a set of category checks tuned for lending and AMM-style yield contracts. Pools above the configured risk threshold are excluded from the allocation set; pools whose score deteriorates after admission are re-checked at the next scoring cycle and removed if they cross the threshold. ## Pre-allocation gating The two screening layers are composed into a single pre-allocation gate. A pool enters the candidate set only if address screening returns clean for every associated address and smart-contract risk scoring returns a score within the configured tolerance. The gate runs ahead of Signal Mesh's ranking step; an allocator sees only pools that have already passed the gate, and a pool that fails the gate cannot surface as a recommendation regardless of how strong its yield signal is. ## Post-trade monitoring After a recommendation is acted on, monitoring continues. The allocator wallet is re-screened on the same continuous cadence, the pool's smart-contract risk score is re-scored, and any drift past the configured threshold fires a re-check and flags the position for re-evaluation. Post-trade monitoring is what turns the gate from a one-shot check into a live integrity layer across the lifetime of an allocation. ## Regulatory posture Path is an information layer. We do not custody funds and we do not present allocation guidance as a managed product. The user remains the decision-maker. Where a specific embedding requires transaction crafting or signal-driven execution, the licensing route is scoped per partner against the embedding partner's jurisdiction. ## Data residency Live prediction data is hosted on managed Postgres infrastructure with encrypted backups, role-isolated access, and an audit log on every read. Partner-specific data (wallet contexts, allocation suggestions emitted to a specific partner) is segregated at the schema level. Self-host is available for partners with strict residency requirements.