Building a Safer Crypto Community Through the Pursuit of Truth
Our focus is on engaging clients and delivering high-quality outcomes. We put an emphasis on education, transparency, and customer service.
Our Vision
To establish CoinStructive as a pillar in the crypto community in the areas of regulatory affairs, financial compliance and blockchain investigations.
Core Values
Our core values are at the heart of our company culture. Each client receives a holistic approach to ensure we provide a meaningful engagement that exceeds expectations.
Ownership
Responsibility
Empathy
Integrity
Our Services
CoinStructive provides several services for crypto financial institutions:
- Day-to-day BSA/AML Compliance Operations Services
- State Money Transmission Licensing acquisition
- Cryptocurrency Fraud Investigations & Blockchain Forensics Analysis
Meet Our Founder
Chris Groshong is a Certified Fraud Investigator who focuses on helping victims of cryptocurrency frauds and scams and is the Chief Compliance Officer for several Bitcoin ATM operators.
He is a member of the CFCIA (California Financial Crimes Investigators Association) and has served as an Expert Witness in a Federal fraud case involving cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Monero.
Chris is also the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) San Diego Chapter Lead.
His foray into public policy, legislation and advocacy started in 2016 when his company, CoinStructive co-sponsored with Microsoft and Bloq, the guiding principles for “Protecting Consumers in the Digital Currency Economy” published by the Consumer’s Research group out of DC.
In 2017, he was a proponent of and helped shape the Uniform Law Commission’s (ULC) Uniform Regulation of the Virtual-Currency Businesses Act (URVCBA).
In 2020, Chris voluntarily contributed to the California Blockchain Working Group.
Currently he sits on several subcommittees for the ULC and American Law Institute’s hosted discussions to amend the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) with respect to virtual currencies.
Meet Our Team
Monet Valdez
Compliance Analyst & Money Transmission Licensing Specialist
Monet’s legal interests in cryptocurrency policies in the U.S. continue to grow, and she hopes to become a point of contact in the future for crypto developments at home and abroad.
Monet Valdez
Originally from Los Angeles, Monet Valdez has made San Diego her home. With a BA in Political Science from California State University, San Marcos and a J.D. from California Western School of Law, she joined the Coinstructive team after completing an internship as a Fraud Investigator during her 3L year.
Monet graduated law school with a concentration in International Law, studied abroad in Galway, Ireland, and was published by DESC, a Brazilian law journal, with an article that dissects crypto regulations in the E.U. and in Latin America and their impact on anti-money laundering.
Monet has one dog, Frida, who is a lovable one year old Whippador. When not at work, (and during no Pandemic restrictions), Monet loves going to concerts, taking Frida to dog parks, and searching San Diego for the best California Burrito.
Saul Ancona
Agent of Process
Saul’s utilizes his legal knowledge and passion for helping others by negotiating settlements for SIM Swap Victims.
Saul Ancona
Saul is an entrepreneur and graduate of New York University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in real estate and is currently studying law at Brooklyn Law School.
Saul has experienced success and failure, both of which have molded his understanding of how life can throw us curveballs at any moment. He has experience in a diversity of fields including real estate, fashion, and recreation.
Saul started working with CoinStructive after he was victimized by a sim-swap hack which resulted in a great loss of cryptocurrency. After being rejected by multiple attorneys, Saul decided to act himself. He spent the next few months negotiating an out of court settlement with the attorneys at his then telecom provider and was successful in doing so.
Since then, Saul partnered with CoinStructive to help other victims of sim-swap hacks gain compensation from their telecom providers for the latter’s negligence in guarding their privacy.