204 days.
That’s how long the most widely used onchain sanctions list went without an update (Etherscan, as of Oct 8).
On May 20, OFAC added 6 Ethereum addresses as part of its Sinaloa Cartel designations. The Chainalysis sanctions oracle last took a list update on March 18. Since then, OFAC has published 60+ list-update notices.
A sanctions oracle is a tiny contract: isSanctioned(address) -> true or false. Your protocol calls it mid-transaction and reverts if the answer is true. Simple. But the answer is only as good as the list behind it.
And the rules are tightening. A proposed FinCEN/OFAC rule under the GENIUS Act expects stablecoin issuers to be able to block, freeze and reject transactions. MiCA-licensed CASPs and UAE VASPs face wallet-level screening too.
Chainalysis set the interface the industry adopted. The question is how fresh the data behind it is.
RedStone just shipped its own Sanctions Oracle, live on Ethereum mainnet:
-> 463 official lists via OpenSanctions (OFAC, EU, UN, UK FCDO and more)
-> reviewed designations pushed onchain roughly weekly
-> every update timestamped, so you set your own staleness tolerance in code
-> areSanctioned() for batch checks
-> 4-of-6 multisig, signed from cold storage
Is it really updating? 11 update transactions between Aug 13 and Oct 19. All public on Etherscan.
Migration is one line. Same interface, new address:
SANCTIONS_CONTRACT = 0x574Ad490fE8087B580DB227a8Ca7EfB7C19Dc8C4
Context: Ethereum holds about $143B in stablecoins, more than any other chain (DefiLlama). That’s a lot of value passing through a list.
Compliance isn’t a feature you ship once. It’s a data feed. Treat it like one.
CJ just found out SPY & QQQ perps are live on @reya_xyz 💚
Up to 25x leverage on the entire market.
First Mag7. Now the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100.
No market hours. 24/7 trading. Millisecond speed. All onchain.
The bigger picture is finally tradable.
gReya
institutions want onchain money. regulators want compliance. someone has to make it work. ♦️
RedStone just launched its Sanctions Oracle on Ethereum mainnet, and this is where things get interesting.
It checks wallets against 463 official sanctions data sources, including OFAC, the EU, the UN and the UK. If an address gets flagged, protocols can reject the transaction onchain.
but the real kicker is data freshness. RedStone updates its lists weekly and timestamps every update, so protocols can actually verify how current their sanctions data is.
Even more interesting: when RedStone tested its oracle against Chainalysis, it flagged six Ethereum addresses that the existing oracle didn't flag. In compliance, outdated data isn't just a technical issue.
Switching is also pretty straightforward. The interface is compatible, so migration comes down to changing one line of code.
everyone talks about bringing institutions into DeFi, but not enough people talk about the infrastructure they need to get there. RedStone is building that side of the stack too.
necessary infrastructure for institutional DeFi, or another step toward making crypto less permissionless?
Reya v2 is moving kinda fast 👀
The first wave from the waitlist is already trading on the new orderbook, and things are starting to get interesting.
v1 did $135B in volume and had 10k+ traders. Now v2 is taking a different route with a high-throughput, zk-verifiable orderbook built for serious market makers.
And that’s where it gets interesting.
More market makers = tighter spreads, deeper liquidity and better trading conditions for everyone. The book is still growing, and conditions keep improving week by week.
They’re also bringing RWAs into the mix. Gold, silver, oil alongside BTC, ETH and other crypto markets. All on the same onchain orderbook. No need to jump between different venues.
And here’s the part worth watching 👀
Season 2 has a fixed pool of 3% of $REYA supply. The earlier you get in, the less crowded things are while the ecosystem is still growing.
New markets, better liquidity, fixed rewards pool.
Might be worth paying attention before everyone else does.
@reya_xyz
Ethos built a whole platform around reputation.
Then they sold WHUF at $4.20.
Now the token unlocks and the market gets to decide what that “reputation” is actually worth.
The funniest part?
A platform built to tell you who to trust somehow made its own token sale look like the thing you should’ve been warned about.
$4.20 -> good reputation
market price -> bad reputation
Ethos really said:
trust us bro, but make it on-chain.
@ethos_network
monster. retweeted
Regulators and institutions want digital assets with built-in sanctions screening.
We’ve launched RedStone Sanctions Oracle, which checks wallets against 463 sources covering OFAC, UN, EU, and other lists, with weekly timestamped updates.
Integrate with a single line of code.
gm chads
@get_truenorth finally added @Lighter_xyz .
Now both Core and Robinhood Chain are running through agents. Funding arb in one click, points keep stacking while you’re not sitting there staring at charts.
$50k in $LIT to kick things off. Two weeks, leaderboard resets every week.
Top 20 get paid, then it’s a lottery.
Volume alone doesn’t mean shit. It’s volume + PnL that counts.
Still one week left. If you’re not in yet, that’s on you.
lets go champs !
DeFi got the drip. Now the infrastructure needs to match.
RedStone is officially ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified - and this is way more than just another badge to put on the website.
As billions move onchain, RWAs keep expanding and institutions continue stepping into DeFi, security is becoming just as important as speed, scalability and reliability. You can’t build the next generation of financial infrastructure on systems that people can’t trust.
Oracles sit right in the middle of it all: price feeds, market data, tokenized assets and critical information that protocols rely on to make decisions onchain. If the data layer isn’t secure, everything built on top of it is exposed.
That’s why ISO 27001 matters. It shows that RedStone is putting serious security processes and risk management behind the infrastructure powering DeFi.
Secure data. Reliable infrastructure. Institutional standards.
The next era of DeFi won’t be built on hype alone. It will be built on infrastructure that can handle real capital, real institutions and real-world assets.
RedStone is getting ready for that future.
And yeah… we clean up pretty well.
monster. retweeted
Tokenized stocks total $3.17B+ in onchain value.
Only 2.6% of that is used in DeFi.
Read our latest report with @FourPillarsFP and @AleaResearch, revealed at @TokenizeThisNYC Singapore edition, to learn why.
Features insights from: @Securitize, @DinariGlobal, @SuperstateInc, @extendedapp, @lista_dao, @JupiterExchange, @CredoraNetwork.
Had a great meetup with @slon0x echo miner boss!
We talked about the current market, Web3, and of course RedStone - sharing thoughts, ideas, and discussing what’s happening in the ecosystem.
Stoney was with us for the whole meetup as well… although somehow he ended up drinking all our rum. 🥲😂
Great to take the RedStone community offline and connect beyond Discord! ❤️
We had a nice chat with the guys;
they said they were willing to correct their mistake and give me immediate access to trading.
I make a living trading - guys, give me access!
gReya!
@0xSimonJones @arturbegyan
RWA + AI is a combination worth keeping an eye on. 👀
In the latest episode of the RedStone Podcast, Mike Massari sits down with Edwin Mata, CEO and Co-Founder of Brickken, to discuss the future of tokenized assets and how AI could reshape institutional finance.
One of the biggest challenges today is that most information about tokenized assets is still stored offchain. AI agents can interact with tokens, but they often lack access to the reliable, up-to-date data needed to make informed decisions.
That's where things get interesting.
Brickken is building infrastructure that allows AI agents to issue and manage tokenized assets through APIs, MCP servers, and SDKs. Meanwhile, RedStone provides the data infrastructure needed to bring real-time information onchain.
Together with solutions like Credora's risk ratings and RedStone Settle's T+0 settlement, this could open the door to a much more automated financial ecosystem.
Edwin believes Wall Street will be running on blockchain by 2030. And if AI agents are going to play a major role in that future, they'll need more than just smart contracts. They'll need reliable data.
We're still early, but the pieces are slowly coming together.
