Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet

Concrete'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 #

Cannot be assessed at OSINT tier. Team operates with off-chain payroll (institutionally backed startup with $17M+ raised). No on-chain payment streams to contributors visible. Deployer EOA is the only known contributor wallet on-chain; its 3-hop analysis is clean (Kraken-sourced, no DPRK proximity). All other contributor payments are off-chain (bank/stablecoin payroll), making this factor structurally inaccessible without insider knowledge.

Sources #

Etherscan
Concrete: Deployer — Etherscan (3-hop clean)Deployer EOA transaction history — only on-chain wallet assessed; funded from Kraken-sourced wallet at hop-1; no DPRK proximity in 3-hop analysisretrieved 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.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol concrete factor RD-F-122 score gray collected_at 2026-05-17 14:36:59