SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

Geographic Restrictions

Nest is designed to be globally accessible. We use onchain infrastructure to enforce regulatory safeguards while preserving permissionless access for eligible users.

Restriction Jurisdictions

This list is subject to change based on updates to sanctions, AML, and compliance frameworks.

This includes jurisdictions identified by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action or Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring, commonly referred to as the FATF blacklist and greylist.

Users located in, organised in, or ordinarily resident in the following jurisdictions are prohibited from accessing Nest or interacting with its smart contracts (whether through the app or directly with smart contracts):

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iran, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Republic of Marshall Islands, Monaco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

How Compliance Is Enforced

Nest is built on Plume, which enforces onchain AML screening for every wallet.
Wallets interacting with Nest—whether via the app or directly with smart contracts—are screened for:
- Sanction exposure
- Known illicit actors
- High-risk jurisdictions
- Restrictred jurisdictions

If a wallet fails screening, the transaction is automatically rejected by the sequencer before it can be included in a block. This enforcement applies uniformly whether the interaction occurs through the Nest app or directly with its smart contracts.