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Optimism Gateway
Bridge · incorporated in Unattributed · founded 2017 · attribution: public
Desk review58
On-chain review96
Cluster volume 21,973,532

Optimism Gateway is a bridge incorporated in Unattributed, assessed at 79/100 (medium risk) from a desk review of 58/100 and an on-chain review of 96/100. Licence status is out of scope with none evidence (not applicable (non-custodial protocol)), MiCA out of scope, KYC rigour none, Travel Rule absent. The largest single deduction is 24 points for counterparty controls: non-custodial protocol: no customer identification, Travel Rule or monitoring programme is possible. 1 clustered wallet(s) moved $21,973,532 in the reviewed window, of which $0 (0.00%) touched categories of severity 5 or above and 0.00% touched severity 8 or above. No confirmed Travel Rule capability, so originator and beneficiary data cannot be exchanged for VASP-to-VASP transfers.

Combined score weights the desk review at 45% and the on-chain review at 55%, because chain evidence is observed while the regulatory file is asserted.

What this assessment rests on

45% of the score is a desk review of the regulatory file. Licence status, controls and monitoring maturity are asserted in the directory record rather than observed on chain, and no attribution measurement grades them.

55% of the score is the on-chain review of 1 of 1 clustered address(es). 55.8% of the value those wallets moved resolves to an identified counterparty (partial attribution), and the risk composition and illicit-share figures are computed over the same traffic.

The attribution figure covers the on-chain review only. There is no single coverage percentage for this score, because the desk review half is not measured over counterparty value.

Regulatory file

Legal nameOptimism Gateway
Trading nameOptimism Gateway
Licence statusout of scope (none evidence)
Regulatornot applicable (non-custodial protocol)
Licence reference
MiCA statusout of scope
JurisdictionUnattributed (--), risk 3/10
Operational hubsRU, US

Controls

KYC rigournone · No identity verification identified.
Withdrawal KYC threshold no verification
Travel Ruleabsent · No Travel Rule capability identified.
Transaction monitoringabsent
Sanctions screening none identified
Source of funds checks not performed
Custody modelnon custodial

Desk review deductions

42.0 points deducted from 100.

Counterparty controls -24.0 pts
non-custodial protocol: no customer identification, Travel Rule or monitoring programme is possible
Licence evidence -8.0 pts
licence evidence is none
Licence status -6.0 pts
out of scope — not applicable (non-custodial protocol)
MiCA status -4.0 pts
MiCA out of scope

On-chain review of the provider's clusters

Clustered addresses 1
Wallets screened 1
Inbound 6,058,430
Outbound 15,915,102
Illicit share 0.0%
Partial attribution · 55.8% of traced value

Only 56% of traced value resolves to an identified counterparty. The score is real but partial: it measures the identified minority of this wallet's activity.

Measured over the counterparties of the screened clustered wallets. It grades the on-chain half of the score only, not the desk review.

8 of 45 counterparties (17.8%) resolve to an identified entity. This screen cannot auto-clear: attribution is below the sufficient floor (70% of traced value). Unattributed exposure is penalised: the 'unknown' category carries a 4.0-point penalty at full exposure, reached at a 60% share. A wallet with mostly unidentified counterparties loses points for that. A clean-looking score still cannot auto-clear below the sufficient attribution floor.

Risk composition of managed wallets

Unattributed address · sev 2 69.257% · 15,218,310
Regulated exchange or VASP · sev 1 30.743% · 6,755,222

Screened wallets

AddressChainScoreRisk InboundOutboundTransfersSource
0x99C9fc46f92E8a1c0deC1b1747d010903E884bE1 Ethereum 96 Low 6,058,430 15,915,102 300 live:alchemy

Compliance and provenance

Travel Rule counterparty not ready · No Travel Rule capability identified.
Data sourcelive:alchemy · 1 of 1 clustered address(es) screened
Directory41 VASP profiles, 2463 labelled entities

Label sources

  • Sanctions: 943 designated addresses from the US Treasury OFAC SDN list, published 08/28/2026.
  • Token contracts: 927 identified from public token lists.
  • Cited public labels: 519 addresses from 34 source(s), each with a URL.
    • Aave address book: V3 Ethereum (98 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV3Ethereum.json
    • FBI/IC3 PSA: North Korea responsible for $1.5 billion Bybit hack (51 addresses) — https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250226
    • Aave address book: AaveV3Polygon (45 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV3Polygon.json
    • Aave address book: V2 Ethereum (40 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV2Ethereum.json
    • Aave address book: AaveV3Arbitrum (39 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV3Arbitrum.json
    • Aave address book: AaveV3Optimism (31 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV3Optimism.json
    • Aave address book: AaveV3Base (25 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV3Base.json
    • Tornado Cash smart contracts (24 addresses) — https://docs.tornado.cash/general/tornado-cash-smart-contracts
    • Bybit: wallet addresses ownership explained (21 addresses) — https://www.bybit.com/en/help-center/article/Bybit-Wallet-Addresses-Ownership-Explained
    • Circle CCTP EVM contract addresses (20 addresses) — https://developers.circle.com/cctp/evm-smart-contracts
    • Aave address book: AaveV3BNB (18 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV3BNB.json
    • Bitfinex: published public wallets (16 addresses) — https://github.com/bitfinexcom/pub/blob/main/wallets.txt
    • Aave address book: AaveV2Polygon (16 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV2Polygon.json
    • Aave address book: AaveV3EthereumLido (12 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/AaveV3EthereumLido.json
    • Crypto.com: Transparency First cold-wallet list (10 addresses) — https://crypto.com/en/company-news/transparency-first
    • Uniswap v3 Arbitrum deployments (7 addresses) — https://docs.uniswap.org/contracts/v3/reference/deployments/arbitrum-deployments
    • Uniswap v3 Optimism deployments (7 addresses) — https://docs.uniswap.org/contracts/v3/reference/deployments/optimism-deployments
    • Uniswap v3 Polygon deployments (7 addresses) — https://docs.uniswap.org/contracts/v3/reference/deployments/polygon-deployments
    • Lido deployed contracts (6 addresses) — https://docs.lido.fi/deployed-contracts/
    • Uniswap v3 Base deployments (6 addresses) — https://docs.uniswap.org/contracts/v3/reference/deployments/base-deployments
    • Uniswap v3 Ethereum deployments (3 addresses) — https://docs.uniswap.org/contracts/v3/reference/deployments/ethereum-deployments
    • Chainalysis: Euler Finance flash loan attack (2 addresses) — https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/euler-finance-flash-loan-attack/
    • Morpho deployed contracts (2 addresses) — https://docs.morpho.org/get-started/resources/addresses
    • Compound III USDC Ethereum roots (2 addresses) — https://github.com/compound-finance/comet/blob/main/deployments/mainnet/usdc/roots.json
    • Aave address book: GhoEthereum (2 addresses) — https://aave-dao.github.io/aave-address-book/api/v1/modules/GhoEthereum.json
    • Railgun privacy system contracts (1 address) — https://docs.railgun.org/wiki/learn/helpful-links
    • Linea network contracts (1 address) — https://docs.linea.build/network/build/contracts
    • Starknet L1-L2 messaging (1 address) — https://docs.starknet.io/documentation/architecture_and_concepts/Network_Architecture/l1-l2-messaging/
    • Chainalysis: Wormhole hack February 2022 (1 address) — https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/wormhole-hack-february-2022/
    • Compound III USDS Ethereum roots (1 address) — https://github.com/compound-finance/comet/blob/main/deployments/mainnet/usds/roots.json
    • Compound III USDT Ethereum roots (1 address) — https://github.com/compound-finance/comet/blob/main/deployments/mainnet/usdt/roots.json
    • Compound III WBTC Ethereum roots (1 address) — https://github.com/compound-finance/comet/blob/main/deployments/mainnet/wbtc/roots.json
    • Compound III WETH Ethereum roots (1 address) — https://github.com/compound-finance/comet/blob/main/deployments/mainnet/weth/roots.json
    • Compound III WSTETH Ethereum roots (1 address) — https://github.com/compound-finance/comet/blob/main/deployments/mainnet/wsteth/roots.json
  • Demonstration data: excluded — 118 synthetic entities were not scored.

Screen window

  • Up to 500 transfers across 3 indexer page(s) · default 3 hops · hop-2 budget 16 · hop-3 budget 12.

Artefact integrity

  • sha256+hmac · SHA-256 1694c8c16fd6d3317506c36f3587a01fd28d9b9df8230df3e1294959b5edd3ff · sealed 2026-09-13T20:52:33+00:00 · HMAC present.

Frameworks covered

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Notice / Disclaimer

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