Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet
Ethena'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. Ethena Labs is a registered corporate entity with off-chain payroll. No on-chain payment streams to named team contributors exist in public OSINT. Contributor wallet routing to DPRK cluster is not verifiable from Etherscan or web OSINT alone. Per process-learnings: 'F122 cannot be meaningfully assessed at OSINT tier for companies with off-chain payroll.' Curator would need access to contributor wallet addresses and hop-trace tooling (Chainalysis/Arkham) to assess.
Sources #
- DocsGovernance | Ethena — 'fully on-chain governance is not a practical or viable option at present'https://docs.ethena.fi/solution-overview/governanceretrieved 2026-04-28
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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