Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet

dYdX v4 (dYdX Chain)'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 #

dYdX Labs is a US-incorporated legal entity (dYdX Trading Inc.) paying employees via standard corporate payroll -- not via on-chain wallet routing. On Cosmos substrate, on-chain contributor payment routing is not indexed by standard Chainalysis-style public tools. No adverse signals (DPRK cluster payment routing) identified in available public sources. Full chain-hop analysis via Cosmos explorer would be required for definitive clearance. Flagged as gray (requires_curator_input) due to substrate limitations on automated chain-hop analysis, not due to adverse signals.

Sources #

URL
dYdX Closes $65M Series CdYdX Trading Inc. entity reference -- US corporate entity, standard payrollretrieved 2026-05-17
Internal
dYdX v4 data cache -- coverage flags00-data-cache.json non_evm_substrate: true -- Cosmos substrate limits standard on-chain hop analysisretrieved 2026-05-17

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 dydx-v4 factor RD-F-122 score gray collected_at 2026-05-17 09:58:47