★ Deployer linked within 3 hops to DPRK/Lazarus
Meteora's assessment for RD-F-125 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
[STAR CRITICAL] No OFAC SDN listing for any Meteora team member, program address, or Kelsier Ventures entity (OFAC.treasury.gov; confirmed via Chainalysis public DPRK blog and TRM Labs OFAC coverage). No Chainalysis or public Lazarus-cluster attribution for Meteora deployer, multisig signers, or named team. Hayden Davis / Kelsier Ventures are subject to Argentine civil asset freeze — not a US OFAC or Lazarus action. The Hurlock v. Kelsier amended complaint (SDNY 2025, amended 2025-07-29) contains no DPRK allegations. HOWEVER: F125 captures illicit-association and criminal-nexus proximity. A Meteora co-founder (Ben Chow) is alleged in an active class-action to have been an active participant in a coordinated token-manipulation scheme. The amended complaint also references approximately 150 insider wallets funded by Kelsier; the full hop-analysis of those wallets against known threat-actor clusters has not been publicly completed. Graded yellow for material insider-association risk: conf
Sources #
- URLM3M3 and LIBRA Token Lawsuit: Hurlock v. Kelsier | Burwick LawBurwick Law case page — Hurlock v. Kelsier amended complaint naming Chow and Meteora; no DPRK claim presentretrieved 2026-05-16
- OFAC Targets DPRK IT Workers Using Crypto | ChainalysisChainalysis DPRK/OFAC public blog — no Meteora or Chow mention in Lazarus cluster attributionretrieved 2026-05-16
- Melania Trump memecoin conspiracy court filing | FortuneFortune class-action amended complaint coverage — no DPRK allegation; insider-wallet cluster described as Kelsier-linked, not DPRK-linkedretrieved 2026-05-16
- Argentina Freezes Hayden Davis Assets | Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance — Argentina freezes Hayden Davis assets; domestic Argentine civil action, not OFAC/Lazarusretrieved 2026-05-16
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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