★ Deployer linked within 3 hops to DPRK/Lazarus
Frax Finance's assessment for RD-F-125 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
STAR CRITICAL. No DPRK/Lazarus cluster proximity within 3 hops for any deployer or signer wallet. Team is doxxed US-adjacent individuals (Kazemian: Iranian-American, UCLA, LA-based; Moore: Italian-American, LA-based; Huan: UCLA-based). Two parallel DPRK web searches ('Sam Kazemian Frax Finance DPRK OR Lazarus OR North Korea'; 'Frax Finance Lazarus cluster OFAC sanctions DPRK developer implant') returned zero protocol-specific results. No OFAC SDN entry for any team member or address. No RD-F-125 red trigger - no rubric discretionary downgrade to F applies.
Sources #
- URLSam Kazemian Wikipedia - no DPRK/Lazarus mentionWeb search Sam Kazemian DPRK OR Lazarus OR North Korea - zero hitsretrieved 2026-05-17
- OFAC Sanctions List Search - US TreasuryOFAC SDN sanctions list - no Frax Finance or team member entriesretrieved 2026-05-17
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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