Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet

Circle USYC's assessment for RD-F-122 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Cannot be meaningfully assessed at OSINT tier. Circle and Hashnote operate with off-chain payroll (traditional employment). No on-chain payment streams to contributor wallets have been identified. Per process-learnings dev-identity-analyst FAILED guidance: F122 is not assessable for companies with off-chain payroll. No on-chain evidence of any DPRK-routing found incidentally.

Sources #

Curator note
Curator note: F122 not assessable for off-chain payroll entitiesOff-chain payroll model confirmed via corporate structure (Circle Inc, Hashnote Management LLC); no on-chain contributor payment streams found; F122 not assessable per process-learnings guidanceretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

Determine whether protocol payments to any contributor wallet have an on-chain path ≤3 hops to a known DPRK-labeled cluster.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol circle-usyc factor RD-F-122 score gray collected_at 2026-05-15 21:56:43