HORMUZ is not affiliated with any party named in the 2026 Strait-of-Hormuz news cycle.
This page is a public, contemporaneous statement of what HORMUZ is, and, more importantly, the entities, schemes, and narratives HORMUZ has no affiliation with. It is published so that exchange, wallet, and aggregator compliance reviewers can verify the project's position against active 2026 sanctions and adverse-media context at the same time as they encounter the project.
Current public snapshot
One record for reviewers.
Supply snapshot: Base block: 50,930,325, observed 2026-09-05T23:13:17.671Z. Total/max supply is 1,000,000,000 HORMUZ; treasury balance is 998,499,900; deployer balance is 100; circulating supply is 1,500,000. The operations wallet 0x799140699e802Ac48624bd90A84afe14cfCFd2bB held 92,889.298733656228758671 HORMUZ and remains included in reported circulation. This project-reported circulation measure is total supply minus treasury and deployer balances; it is not an independently audited measure of public free float.
Liquidity: Uniswap V3 HORMUZ/USDC 1% is live at pool 0x20c497699faf52e25f79d8a66b315d1f264e8674. As observed 2026-09-05, GeckoTerminal is API indexed while its public pool page was unavailable; DEX Screener is unconfirmed; DexTools is indexed via its public pair page.
Listings: CoinCodex submitted 2026-07-14 before reliable completion of the required score-80 fuzzy-name pre-screen; this remains a logged process exception. Its review is unknown; it is not approved. Five submitted free forms: DropsTab, Coinranking, CoinCheckup, LiveCoinWatch, Blockspot; current reviews are unknown and no approvals are confirmed. Three forms remain and require owner completion: CoinLore, CoinCarp, TokenInsight. Base ecosystem submitted separately 2026-09-06; review and publication are unknown; it is not approved and no endorsement is claimed. The September 6 operational OFAC screen returned 19 name matches, including HORMUZ SAFE, and zero exact address matches for the token, treasury, deployer, or operations wallet. It is not a new legal opinion. Centralized exchanges (CEX): none submitted. Seven application receipts record submission only; unknown review and no approval does not establish sanctions, platform, or other compliance clearance. Official X: @hormuzians.
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HORMUZ is not affiliated with any of the following.
The list below is explicit and binding. If a third party publishes claims to the contrary, that party is misrepresenting HORMUZ.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or any IRGC-affiliated unit, foundation, front company, or designated person.
The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) or any successor, rebranded, or affiliated entity.
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Central Bank of Iran, the Iranian armed forces, Iranian state media, or any Iranian state-owned enterprise.
Any Iranian port authority, shipping authority, maritime authority, or maritime-clearance regulator.
Any system, scheme, plan, framework, or program for tolls, fees, transit payments, vessel clearance, safe-passage payments, or maritime passage levies through the Strait of Hormuz or any other waterway.
Iran's "Strait of Hormuz Management Plan" or any related sovereign or quasi-sovereign revenue-collection mechanism.
Any cryptocurrency exchange, processor, OTC desk, or financial venue designated under U.S. Executive Orders 13224 or 13902, including but not limited to Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, Ramzinex, Zedcex, and Zedxion.
Iranian proxy organizations, including but not limited to Hamas and Hezbollah, or any party listed as a Specially Designated National (SDN), Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), or Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
Any sanctions-evasion network, "dark fleet" oil-trade scheme, or shadow-banking facilitator.
Any impersonation scam, including but not limited to messages, emails, calls, or social-media accounts purporting to demand Bitcoin, USDT, or other digital assets from shipping companies, vessel operators, or insurance carriers for Strait-of-Hormuz passage clearance or safety.
Any government, agency, military body, port authority, shipping company, oil major, insurance carrier, financial institution, blockchain foundation, exchange, custodian, or political organization unless that affiliation is recorded in a verifiable public record on this site.
HORMUZ has not received, transmitted, processed, facilitated, or accepted any payment from, to, or on behalf of any of the entities or schemes listed above. HORMUZ has no business model, revenue model, or operational role that involves any of them. The HORMUZ contract has no transfer tax, no admin function, no upgrade path, and cannot route value to any party other than the parties to a peer-to-peer transfer.
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Why this notice exists.
The HORMUZ name is a geographic reference to the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime chokepoint between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. In the 2026 news cycle, the same geographic term has been used in connection with: an OFAC alert on Iranian demands for Strait-of-Hormuz passage payments; the U.S. Treasury's designation of the Persian Gulf Strait Authority; the EU Council's May 22, 2026 extension of sanctions targeting parties impeding Strait-of-Hormuz transit; the OFAC June 2, 2026 designation of four Iranian crypto exchanges; FinCEN's IRGC front-company alert; and a parallel impersonation scam in which fraudsters posing as Iranian officials demand cryptocurrency from shipping companies.
None of those items involve HORMUZ-the-project. This notice exists so that the absence of involvement is documented in a public, contemporaneous form alongside the project itself, and is unambiguous to a compliance reviewer reading the site for the first time.
The first internal screening run, dated 2026-06-08, classified the project status as REVIEW. A second pass on 2026-06-09, live interactive screening at the OFAC SDN and UN SC portals, escalated the classification to REVIEW-HIGH after the OFAC name search for "HORMUZ" surfaced 15 Iran-context vessel and entity matches at fuzzy threshold 80. At the address level, the contract, treasury, and deployer all returned zero matches on the OFAC SDN and UN SC interactive searches. On 2026-06-12, external U.S. crypto counsel adjudicated the full screening record and issued a written sanctions & adverse-media opinion concluding there is no OFAC nexus between HORMUZ and any sanctioned person, entity, or jurisdiction; the name-level collision is reputational / adverse-media exposure only, not a sanctions nexus attributable to HORMUZ-the-token. The classification moved to Clear-with-conditions, clearing pool launch and public marketing on Base subject to the binding conditions listed above. The opinion does not extend to centralized-exchange compliance, MiCA, or securities classification; those remain separate analyses, and exchange / aggregator submissions remain subject to their own requirements and a pre-submission re-screen. The UK Sanctions List portal was in service outage at the time of the interactive pass and the EU FSF database requires authenticated access; both are scheduled for the next quarterly re-screen and before any UK / EEA-facing distribution.
GeckoTerminal API indexed with its public pool page unavailable; DEX Screener unconfirmed; DexTools indexed via its public pair page, as observed 2026-09-05. Seven applications have submission receipts: CoinCodex, DropsTab, Coinranking, CoinCheckup, LiveCoinWatch, Blockspot, and Base ecosystem. Review and publication are unknown; no approvals or endorsement are confirmed. Three forms require owner completion: CoinLore, CoinCarp, and TokenInsight. Centralized exchanges (CEX): none submitted.
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Operational commitments.
HORMUZ marketing will not use Strait-of-Hormuz toll-narrative framing, IRGC iconography, Iranian state symbols, naval or tanker imagery, vessel-clearance or safe-passage language, or any framing that could be confused with the impersonation scam currently described in the press.
HORMUZ will not solicit or accept payment for vessel passage, transit clearance, port access, or any maritime service.
HORMUZ has no rebate, redemption, peg, yield, inflation-hedge, or guaranteed-price mechanism, and will never represent itself as one. See the binding rules at Legal & risk.
HORMUZ will publish each platform interaction (pool creation, aggregator submission, exchange application) only after the underlying public record exists, and only with a link to that record.
If any third party publishes a claim of HORMUZ affiliation with a party listed in §01, HORMUZ will publish a takedown notice within 24 hours.
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Reporting impersonation.
Anyone observing an account, message, smart-contract clone, or domain that misrepresents HORMUZ as participating in the Strait-of-Hormuz toll scheme or the impersonation scam should report it to compliance@hormuz.meme and to the relevant platform.
HORMUZ does not contact shipping companies. HORMUZ does not request transit fees. HORMUZ does not request seed phrases or private keys. Any message claiming otherwise is fraudulent.
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Internal references.
Sanctions screening file: the project's internal SANCTIONS-NAME-SCREENING.md records the public sources reviewed, the findings (F1–F8 from the indexed pass, F10–F14 from the interactive pass), the counsel adjudication (Anderson PC written memorandum, 2026-06-12, matter ref HORMUZ-G0A-2026-06, held privately with counsel; authorized summary in §6.3), the current classification (Clear-with-conditions), the binding conditions, and the required next actions. Findings F1–F14 remain the permanent record. The status of this file controls whether any platform submission may proceed.
Treasury policy: the project's internal TREASURY-DISTRIBUTION-POLICY.md records the rules governing the treasury's authorized movements.
Liquidity operations: the project's internal LIQUIDITY-OPERATIONS-POLICY.md records the LP-wallet rules, the no-wash-trading commitment, and the launch playbook.
Last updated: 2026-09-06. This notice will be re-issued with each material change to the project's status, counsel adjudication, or compliance posture. Return to home.