Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet

Kinetiq'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 #

Team compensation appears to be off-chain (no on-chain payroll streams identified for named contributors). Deployer EOA funding trace 1–2 hops shows no DPRK cluster labels, but contributor wallet addresses are not publicly mapped. Per standard process-learning for F122: mark gray for protocols with off-chain payroll and no identifiable contributor payment streams.

Sources #

Etherscan
Kinetiq Deployer — HyperEVMScanHyperEVMScan deployer — 717 txs, no contributor payment stream patterns identified; funding source chain checked to 2 hopsretrieved 2026-05-17
Curator note
F122 gap rationaleF122 standard finding: cannot assess contributor payment routing to DPRK cluster for protocols with off-chain payroll — no on-chain payment streams identified for named contributorsretrieved 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.

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol kinetiq factor RD-F-122 score gray collected_at 2026-05-17 15:29:57