Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet
PancakeSwap's assessment for RD-F-122 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
No evidence of contributor payments routing to DPRK-labeled wallets. The Allium/Warren finding (Dec 2025 Senator letter) is about Lazarus Group using PancakeSwap platform for money laundering, not about developer payment flows to DPRK cluster. ZachXBT DPRK IT worker investigations do not name PancakeSwap as an employer of DPRK developers. No blockchain analytics report identifies any PancakeSwap contributor payment address linking to DPRK cluster.
Sources #
- URLWarren Presses DOJ on PancakeSwap Questions — DPRK context is platform-laundering, not developer paymentsCoinEdition — Warren letter PancakeSwap/North Korearetrieved 2026-04-28
- ZachXBT DPRK IT Worker Operation — PancakeSwap not listed as affected protocolZachXBT DPRK IT worker investigation — pancakeswap not namedretrieved 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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