Contributor paid to DPRK-cluster wallet

Usual (USD0 / bUSD0 / USUAL)'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 assess contributor payment routing to known DPRK cluster. Main contracts repo is private; developer payroll for Usual Labs is presumably off-chain (French-incorporated company with VC-backed payroll structure). Deployer wallet funding chain traces to a protocol-associated Gnosis Safe with no DPRK proximity (see RD-F-125). On-chain payment streams to individual engineering contributors not visible from OSINT.

Sources #

Etherscan
Usual: Deployer — Etherscan (funding chain)Deployer funding chain — Safe to intermediate to deployer; no DPRK cluster proximityretrieved 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 usual factor RD-F-122 score gray collected_at 2026-05-16 20:39:44