Forta × Ink: Scaling Compliance and Security for the Era of Institutional Adoption

Onchain finance is maturing fast, as institutional capital is finally preparing to move onchain at scale. For a leading chain like Kraken’s Ink, automated and real-time risk management is no longer optional: it is core infrastructure.

Forta Firewall and Ink have grown together to meet that need since Q1 2025.

A Partnership Built on Progress

From the beginning, Ink’s focus was compliance. The first integration of Forta Firewall was a sanctions lists control: transaction-level screening against sanctions Lists and enforcement that blocks interactions involving any sanctioned addresses. This gave Ink a concrete, auditable answer to one of the most important questions from regulators and institutional partners: how does the network handle sanctioned counterparties in practice, not just on paper?

Once that foundation was in place, the partnership expanded into broader transaction risk monitoring. Firewall started to continuously evaluate Ink’s transactions for exploits, phishing and fake tokens and anomalies such as unusually large movements. This gave Ink continuous visibility into activity that could affect users, liquidity, and the integrity of the ecosystem.

The latest evolution adds phishing prevention to that stack. Firewall now helps Ink mitigate end-user exposure to deceptive flows by screening and blocking transactions designed to trick people into signing away funds.

Risk Management as a Living System

To date, Forta Firewall has screened more than 750 million transactions across supported chains. On Ink alone, 220 million transactions have already been analyzed through these risk models. 

This evolution matters because the industry is still under constant attack as the audience shifts from early adopters to mainstream users and institutions. For Ink, proactive transaction screening is how a top chain protects its community from high-risk activity while also meeting the expectations of regulators and institutional allocators.

By starting with Sanctions Lists screening, then layering exploit and scam monitoring, and now phishing-focused prevention, Ink is setting a standard for how L2s can manage risk without sacrificing openness or composability. It is building an environment where users can transact with more confidence and where institutional funds can participate knowing that real-time controls are in place.

That is how finance and blockchain begin to converge in practice: not only through faster rails and new asset types, but through credible, continuous risk management embedded directly into the transaction layer. Forta and Ink are demonstrating what that future looks like today.

About Forta

Forta offers onchain security and compliance, leveraging advanced AI and machine learning to proactively detect and prevent threats. Spun off from Open Zeppelin in 2021, Forta has top tier backers such as a16z, Blockchain Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.

About Ink

Ink is an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain built on the Optimism Superchain. It is designed as the future of onchain capital markets. From lending and trading to structured products and asset management, Ink enables a new generation of DeFi protocols to coordinate capital at scale.