Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet
Balancer (v2 + v3)'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 any Balancer contributor payment wallet routing to a DPRK-labeled cluster within 3 hops. All 11 DAO multisig signer addresses are named DeFi participants from established organizations with no OFAC designation. Web search for 'Balancer Labs DPRK OR Lazarus OR North Korea developer' returns zero adverse results. November 2025 exploit attacker wallets (funded via Tornado Cash per OKX reporting) are distinct from all team/deployer wallets.
Sources #
- URLOFAC SDN List — Treasury.govOFAC North Korea sanctions page — no Balancer addresses listedretrieved 2026-05-05
- Balancer Multisig Signers — docs.balancer.fiBalancer DAO multisig signers — all 11 named representatives from established DeFi organizations, no OFAC flagsretrieved 2026-05-05
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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