A US appeals court ruled that Tornado Cash’s smart contracts aren’t property, invalidating Treasury sanctions. The decision supports decentralization but sparks debate on regulating blockchain tied to ...

Tornado Cash was sanctioned in August 2022 amid alleged use among threat actors, including Lazarus Group The crypto mixing service's co-founders have been charged by the DOJ with sanctions ...

Tornado Cash users scored a major victory in a United States appeals court after a three-judge panel found the Treasury’s sanctions against the crypto mixer’s immutable smart contracts were ...

On Nov. 26, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that OFAC “exceeded its statutory authority” when it sanctioned some of Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts in 2022.

Tornado Cash’s Roman Semenov, Roman Storm also faced legal challenges The platform was blacklisted in the US back in 2022 Tornado Cash was said to have laundered over $7 billion in illegal funds ...

Vitalik Buterin Donated $1M in Ether to Coin Center Hours After Tornado Cash Victory The Ethereum co-founder previously donated 30 ETH to the legal defense fund for Tornado Cash developers Alexey ...

U.S. sanctions against Tornado Cash, a service that anonymizes crypto transactions, must be abandoned, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision answers a controversial privacy debate on ...

A federal appeals court has rejected the Treasury Department’s sanctions on Tornado Cash, a so-called cryptocurrency mixing service that U.S. officials allege was used to launder funds stolen by ...

U.S. <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916" target="_blank">sanctions</a> against Tornado Cash, a service that anonymizes crypto transactions ...

A federal appeals court has concluded that the U.S. Treasury Department acted beyond its authority by sanctioning Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer connected to North Korean hacking activities. In ...