This credential certifies AML/CFT capability at principal level — the officer who owns the function, not the one who operates it. Holders have completed a 98-module, 16-chapter program built specifically for crypto-asset service providers in the European Union, covering the EU legal architecture (MiCA, the AML package, the Transfer of Funds Regulation, DORA), the principal core (governance, enterprise-wide risk assessment, CDD and EDD at scale, monitoring and screening architecture, crypto typologies and investigation, FIU reporting, data protection inside the AML programme, ICT resilience, audit and assurance), and the principal layer: supervision, enforcement and personal accountability. Unlike knowledge-only certifications, CAPS is assessed on applied judgment. Holders complete ten decision simulators across the range a principal actually carries — building and defending an enterprise-wide risk assessment, leading a supervisory inspection from first request to exit meeting, reviewing an analyst's tracing file, running the reporting line against a statutory clock, managing a finite alert desk, and holding position when a board overrules its MLRO — and pass a 100-question final examination. A CAPS holder can design an AML/CFT framework for an EU crypto-asset service provider and defend it to a supervisor, state which instrument imposes any given obligation and by when, produce an enterprise-wide risk assessment that survives challenge, lead a remediation under a supervisory deadline, and understand where the function's decisions become their own personal accountability.