Fireblocks’ Pavle Krivokuća on why Travel Rule compliance is still hard

Moving crypto across a public blockchain takes seconds. Proving to regulators who sent it and who received it is a different story. Pavle Krivokuća, Product Manager for Compliance & Security Infrastructure at Fireblocks, says Travel Rule compliance on public blockchains remains difficult for two stubborn reasons. Travel Rule providers don’t share information with each other, and jurisdictions don’t agree on the rules. Two problems, one rule Krivokuća laid out the challenge during a late October 2026 episode of the Stable School podcast. The Travel Rule requires virtual asset service providers, or VASPs, to exchange originator and beneficiary data when value moves between them. The first problem Krivokuća flagged is interoperability. Various Travel Rule providers run their own networks, and those networks don’t necessarily talk to each other. The second problem is regulatory fragmentation. Different jurisdictions impose different compliance requirements, so what satisfies one regulator may not satisfy another. How Fireblocks is trying to bridge the gaps Fireblocks’ answer has been to plug multiple providers into one platform rather than betting on a single network. The company h...