- Tornado cash is now on the Treasury’s list of services US individuals cannot use
- The sanctions come as money moved via crypto mixing services increased in 2022
In its first on-chain decentralized finance protocol sanction, the US Treasury Department added decentralized cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash to its blocked list, according to documents released Monday.
Užsienio turto kontrolės biuras pridėjo „Tornado Cash“. and 45 related Ethereum wallet addresses to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, meaning that their “assets are blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them,” according to the Iždo departamentas.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken initially mistakenly identified Tornado Cash as “a U.S.-sanctioned, DPRK state-sponsored hacking group, used by the DPRK to launder money,” in a subsequently-deleted tweet.
Secretary Blinken later clarified that Tornado Cash was merely used by a North Korean hacking group to launder money.
The sanctions come as 2022 has seen an uptick in the use of kriptovaliutų maišymo paslaugos, kurios leidžia vartotojams nuslėpti operacijų istoriją tam tikrų kriptovaliutų sujungimas ir maišymas su kitų vartotojų lėšomis.
Remiantis duomenimis, 30 dienų maišytuvų gautas vertės slenkamasis vidurkis balandžio 52 d. pasiekė visų laikų rekordą – beveik 19 mln. a report by Chainalysis published in July. This is roughly double the volumes seen at the same time in 2021.
Mixers have also come under increased scrutiny as concerns about sanctioned Russian entities using crypto to circumvent the rules mounts.
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Updated Aug. 8, 2022, 12:50 pm ET.
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Source: https://blockworks.co/us-treasury-bans-citizens-from-using-mixing-service-tornado-cash/