★ Deployer linked within 3 hops to DPRK/Lazarus
Babylon Protocol's assessment for RD-F-125 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
No DPRK/Lazarus proximity found. Dedicated OSINT search 'Babylon Labs DPRK OR Lazarus OR North Korea developer' returned zero results. David Tse: U.S. National Academy of Engineering member (2018), Stanford professor for 10+ years, MIT PhD, AT&T Bell Labs postdoc, UC Berkeley faculty — one of the most verifiable academic identities in DeFi; OFAC SDN and Lazarus cluster reports contain no reference to his name or linked wallets. Fisher Yu (Mingchao Yu): Australian National University MPhil, Dolby Laboratories US (2018-2022) as prior employer — no DPRK-adjacent history. Babylon Labs VC-backed by Paradigm (US), Polychain (US), Hack VC, Galaxy — KYC-grade diligence implied by Paradigm Series B lead. No public Chainalysis Lazarus report links any Babylon Labs entity or wallet to DPRK cluster. OFAC SDN does not list Babylon Labs, BabylonChain Inc., David Tse, or Fisher Yu. No deployer EOA to trace hops from (structurally non-EVM). Escalation: NOT required.
Sources #
- Curator noteCurator note: zero DPRK/Lazarus results for Babylon LabsDedicated DPRK search 2026-05-04 returned zero results for Babylon Labsretrieved 2026-05-04
- Bitcoin Staking Project Babylon Raises $70M Led by ParadigmParadigm Series B — implies KYC-level diligence on foundersretrieved 2026-05-04
- Fisher Yu LinkedInFisher Yu LinkedIn — prior employer Dolby Laboratories (US) documentedretrieved 2026-05-04
- David Tse | Tse Lab at Stanford UniversityDavid Tse Stanford — verifies US academic identity with 30-year recordretrieved 2026-05-04
Methodology #
Determine whether the deployer address has an on-chain path of ≤3 hops to a Chainalysis/OFAC DPRK-labeled cluster address.
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