Geo Blocking

Babylon's https://btcstaking.babylonlabs.io/ and API services excludes users from certain jurisdictions to comply with local regulations.

Restricted Territories

Users in Restricted Territories will not be able to load the website and see a message saying "Staking is not available in this region".

Restricted terriories are:

Afghanistan	Cuba	Nicaragua
Belarus	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Russia
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Somalia
Burundi	Donetsk Region of Ukraine	South Sudan
Central African Republic	Eritrea	Sudan
China	Global Anti-Corruption	Syria
Crimea	Guinea	Venezuela
Guinea-Bissau	Haiti	Yemen
Iran	Iraq	Zimbabwe
Lebanon	Libya	Myanmar
Luhansk Regions of Ukraine	Mali

Entities from restricted territories can't access our API at all.

Excluded Jurisdictions

Users in excluded jurisdictions can load the website but not able to connect their wallets to stake or unbond.

The excluded jurisdictions are:

United States of America
Canada
Australia

Entities in excluded jurisdictions can access our API, but they can't access endpoints related to unbonding or points.

API endpoints to be blocked are:

Endpoint	Method
/healthcheck	GET
/v1/staker/delegations	GET
/v1/unbonding	POST
/v1/points/*	GET
/v2/delegations	GET
/v2/delegation	GET

VPN Blocking

Additionally, we are blocking all IPs associated with VPNs based on a Cloudflare managed list. VPN users are treating same as Restricted Territories.