OpenSanctions
awaiting buildWorldwide consolidated sanctions list, BTC subset.
Rows in labels.db
0
Confidence
1.0
Refresh cadence
Daily (mirrors upstream cadence)
Schema
flat
About this source
OpenSanctions is a research project that consolidates sanctions and politically-exposed-persons lists from jurisdictions worldwide: U.S. OFAC, EU consolidated, UN, UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Japan, and many others. We ingest the BTC-applicable subset of their consolidated targets feed. Where an address appears on multiple jurisdiction lists, the OpenSanctions row carries the union of programs.
How we got the data
Pulled from data.opensanctions.org as targets.simple.csv. BTC-applicable rows extracted, per-row sanction program preserved in metadata.
Why this confidence
Authoritative. Each entry reproduces a primary-source government sanctions designation. We carry it at full confidence. Where OFAC and OpenSanctions both name the same address (commonly), the corroboration shows up on the address page as two independent sources agreeing.
License & attribution
OpenSanctions data is published under CC-BY-NC for research use. We use it for compliance lookups on the public site, with full attribution.
Sample addresses
python tools/build_labels_db.py --update --only opensanctions
to populate it.
See the data live
Every row from this source is queryable through the /address aggregator and the JSON API.
JSON API Cross-sourceWant this as a feed?
Same data drives the Address Monitoring API: real-time inflow / outflow events on these addresses as they confirm.
About the API