Summary: CodeVASP is best cataloged as Travel Rule interoperability-and-membership infrastructure rather than as a narrow compliance API. Its official materials show a protocol and operating network created by South Korea’s major exchanges Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit, with a stack spanning encrypted Travel Rule connectivity, unhosted-wallet verification, operator dashboards, wallet- and TXID-based VASP search, alliance due diligence, and integrations into other messaging protocols and blockchain-analytics providers. The strongest differentiator in this pass is that the product surface is not just message delivery: it also coordinates partner networks, compliance workflows, analytics access, training, and member operations.
What it does:
Provides a Travel Rule protocol for VASP-to-VASP compliance messaging and routing
Offers developer documentation for Travel Rule integration, unhosted-wallet verification, and Uppsala wallet-screening integration
Exposes dashboard and client-status tooling for transaction tracking, due diligence, and trend monitoring
Supports wallet-address and TXID-based VASP discovery to improve routing and counterparty identification
Operates an alliance model with protocol interconnects and partner services spanning analytics, AML training, and regulatory support
Key claims:
The homepage says CodeVASP was formed by Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit to provide standardized Travel Rule compliance technology for VASPs in line with FATF and regulator requirements
The FAQ says CodeVASP supports both pre-transaction approval and post-transaction data-request flows depending on regulatory requirements
The FAQ says CodeVASP does not handle or store users’ personal data, and that VASP-to-VASP communication is protected with end-to-end encryption
The developer docs say CodeVASP includes dedicated sections for Travel Rule integration, unhosted-wallet verification, and Uppsala wallet-screening APIs
The services page says CodeVASP provides dashboard metrics, due-diligence tooling, wallet/TXID search, VASP risk assessment, and ongoing AML / regulatory training for alliance members
The services and alliances pages show interoperability or partner relationships with GTR, Sumsub, Sygna, Notabene, Elliptic, TRM Labs, Uppsala, LSEG, CertiK, Kaiko, and ACAMS
Whitepaper: No canonical CodeVASP whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass. The clearest current sources of truth were the official homepage, developer documentation, services page, and alliances page; see ../whitepapers/codevasp-primary-sources-2026-05-01.md.
Best adjacent reads: trisa for the protocol-and-directory baseline, notabene for the broader operator stack, and sumsub for the larger compliance-control-plane version of the same problem.