Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet
StakeWise v3's assessment for RD-F-122 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
No evidence that any contributor payment wallet routes within 3 hops to DPRK-labelled cluster found on public OSINT. Web search 'StakeWise DPRK Lazarus North Korea developer' returned zero StakeWise-specific results. OFAC SDN public list: no StakeWise entities or addresses. However full 3-hop trace of all 7 Safe signers not completed (requires Arkham/Nansen paid tier for signers 0xC46e791d, 0x9cC9c3de, 0x9Aa6Db87, 0x1C86117 — all with unlabelled first-hop funding). Yellow reflects incomplete trace on 4 of 7 signers; no positive DPRK signal found.
Sources #
- URLLazarus DPRK developer recruitment (general) — no StakeWise mention in search resultsWeb search 'StakeWise DPRK Lazarus North Korea developer' — returned no StakeWise-specific resultsretrieved 2026-05-16
- StakeWise Deployer 1 — Etherscan funding traceEtherscan deployer 0x229f53ef — Funded By: Binance 16 (labelled CEX, 1-hop = clean); no DPRK proximityretrieved 2026-05-16
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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