Not being found in the OFAC wallet address list alone cannot confirm that it is unrelated to sanctions.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) warned that a wallet address failing to appear in its sanctions search tool does not by itself confirm the address is sanctions-free, citing FAQ 562’s note that its published digital-asset address list may not be exhaustive. OFAC’s crypto compliance guidance also states that unlisted addresses transacting with listed ones can still carry sanctions risk depending on the nature of the transaction, and that name searches returning similar company names require cross-checking additional identifiers. The agency’s search tool covers the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list and other sanctions lists, each carrying different restrictions, so users must verify which list a match belongs to. The guidance matters for exchanges, custodians and compliance teams that rely on address screening to clear counterparties, since a clean lookup alone may not satisfy sanctions obligations. What to watch next is whether firms broaden screening to counterparty and transaction-level checks rather than address-only lookups.