Data Sources & Attribution

Last updated: 2026

AnchorAPI screens wallet addresses against official sanctions lists published by the following authorities. Source data is normalized and incorporated into our screening service. The official publications remain the authoritative records; results from AnchorAPI are informational and should be independently verified against the current official sources.

United States — OFAC

Contains data sourced from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), including the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List and Consolidated Sanctions List. This data is in the U.S. public domain. Normalized and redistributed by AnchorAPI. No claim of U.S. government endorsement is made. Source data should be independently verified against current OFAC publications.

European Union

Contains data derived from the European Commission's consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions. © European Union, 2026. Reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence; changes were made by AnchorAPI. Only the Official Journal of the European Union is authentic and produces legal effects.

United Kingdom

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, The UK Sanctions List. Adapted by AnchorAPI.

Community

The Community risk labels source is derived from the MyEtherWallet/ethereum-lists repository, used under the MIT License. The MIT License permits commercial use but requires the copyright notice and permission notice to be preserved in all copies or substantial portions of the software. The full notice is reproduced verbatim below.

MIT License

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Sanctions lists are not exhaustive and may be incomplete, delayed, or subject to ownership/control rules not reflected in the published lists. AnchorAPI provides informational screening signals only and does not replace your own compliance obligations.