Former Tornado Cash developer, Ameen Soleimani, has now developed a new mixing service called Privacy Pools to address a critical flaw of the sanctioned crypto mixer. In cryptocurrency, privacy is a t...
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Tornado Cash dev says ‘sequel’ to crypto mixer aims to be regulator-friendly
A former Tornado Cash developer claims to be building a new crypto mixing service that aims to solve a “critical flaw” of the sanctioned crypto mixer —which he hopes will convince U.S. regulators to r...
North Korean Hackers are Using a New Coin Mixer to…
Reports indicate that North Korean hackers are using a new mixing service to launder cryptocurrencies. The new mixer is likely to be a re-launched version of “Blender,” which now operates under the na...
New ‘Sinbad’ Bitcoin Mixer Unmasked As Formerly Sanctioned Blender
A federally sanctioned “coin mixer” used by criminals to launder money appears to have been relaunched under a different name, according to a blockchain analytics firm. “Blender is back,” ...
Crypto mixer Blender has been rebranded to Sinbad, says Elliptic
Blender, the cryptocurrency mixer sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control in May, was “highly likely” relaunched as Sinbad, according to risk mana...
Def Jam Creates NFT Band With Solana’s Catalina Whale Mixer
Legendary hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings is the latest to try its hand at creating a musical act built around NFT avatars, today announcing a collaboration with Solana-based project Catalina W...
Choosing the Right Crypto Mixer: Decentralized vs. Centralized Services
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Lambda Labs Introduces An Artifical Intelligence Image Mixer
Lambda Labs has announced the release of a new AI image mixer capable of combining up to five images. The image mixer is built on the Stable Diffusion Image Variations model, which has been optimized ...
Raydium exploiter moves $2.7M to crypto mixer Tornado Cash
In an alert, blockchain security firm CertiK reported that the Raydium protocol exploiter had sent 1,774.5 Ether (ETH) to the mixer. The amount is worth around $2.7 million at the time of writing. Whi...
Raydium hacker funnels $2.7 million through Tornado Cash mixer
An Ethereum address connected with an exploit of Raydium laundered $2.7 million in ether (ETH) through Tornado Cash on Jan 19., security firm CertiK noted. In December Raydium, a decentralized e...
Nomad exploit wallet address transfers $1.5m to crypto mixer Tornado Cash
While the Nomad Bridge team works to relaunch the platform, a new movement of 1200 ETH has been detected from one of the wallet addresses associated with the hack. A wallet address associated with Nom...
FTX hacker reportedly transfers a portion of stolen funds to OKX after using Bitcoin mixer
Hackers who drained FTX and FTX USA of over $450 million worth of assets just moments after the doomed crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, continue to move assets around in an attempt to ...
FTX Attacker Moving Funds to Bitcoin (BTC) Mixer: Statistics
Vladislav Sopov 360 Bitcoins (BTC) or over $6 million in equivalent being laundered through ChipMixer Contents Bitcoins (BTC) from FTX are on run, ZachXBT says U.S. government undercover operation? Re...
Deribit attackers transfer stolen ETH to Tornado cash crypto mixer
The Deribit hacker has taken off an amount of 1,10 Ether. The amount was moved with about 17 transactions. In the repercussions of the $28 million Deribit exploit, the anonymous hacker transfers stole...
Deribit hackers move stolen Ether to Tornado Cash crypto mixer
In the aftermath of the $28 million Deribit hack, the unknown exploiter is moving stolen funds using the decentralized cryptocurrency mixer, Tornado Cash. The Deribit hot wallet hacker has transferred...
US Department of Justice Files $60 Million Lawsuit Against Bitcoin Mixer Operator – Regulation Bitcoin News
The United States Department of Justice recently filed a lawsuit to recover $60 million that was imposed on Larry Harmon, the operator of a bitcoin mixing service targeted by U.S. law enforcement in 2...
US DOJ Sues Founder of Defunct Crypto Mixer Over Failure to Pay $60M Fine
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Larry Dean Harmon, the founder of defunct cryptocurrency mixer Helix, for failing to pay a civil penalty of $60 million since his indictment in 2...
Helix Crypto Mixer Founder Faces U.S. DOJ Lawsuit To Recover $60 Million Civil Fine
The crypto space is not just extremely full of surprises. It is also fraught with pitfalls and is hard to navigate and understand most of the time. Even when some entities think they’re not doing anyt...
U.S. Department of Justice sues founder of Helix crypto mixer to recover $60 million
The United States Justice Department (DOJ) has formally sued the founder of Helix cryptocurrency mixer in a bid to recover a $60 million civil penalty. In the lawsuit, the DOJ indicated that Larry Ha...
TempleDAO Hacker Moves Stolen Funds to Sanctioned Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
According to data from block explorer, Etherscan, the attacker of the TempleDAO hack, has moved the funds stolen via the recently sanctioned crypto mixer, Tornado Cash. This information was first disc...
Ethereum Coin Mixer Tornado Cash Is Back on GitHub
Ethereum coin mixer Tornado Cash is now back on software hosting website GitHub. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last month blacklisted Tornado Cash, whi...
U.S. Treasury Department Faces Lawsuit From Aggrieved Investors for Proscribing Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
– Advertisement – The U.S. Treasury Department is facing litigation for its previous move to ban Tornado Cash. Aggrieved crypto proponents have filed a lawsuit against the United States ...
North Korea Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Sanctioned By U.S.
North Korea and the United States are once again going at each other’s throats in the name of cryptocurrency activity. This time, it looks like the U.S. has put sanctions in place against North Korea-...
Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Saga Fuels Protest After Developer’s Arrest
The local decentralized finance (DeFi) community gathered to draw attention to Pertsev’s case and ensure a fair trial. Schickler captured interviews from some of the attendees of the protest, many exp...
Report: Ronin Crypto Hackers Find New Mixer to Convert Stolen ETH to BTC 
Ronin bridge hackers moved funds to the Bitcoin network, new report shows Lazarus Group has used various crypto mixing services to conceal funds, including one not yet targeted by OFAC The hacking col...
FTX blocks Aztec Network privacy DApp, calling it a ‘high risk’ mixer
FTX has reportedly begun blocking accounts that have sent coins through zk.money, a private layer-2 chain provided by the Aztec Network on Ethereum. According to Twitter users, FTX has identified the ...
Suspected Developer of Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Arrested in Netherlands for Alleged Money Laundering
The suspected developer of recently-banned crypto mixer Tornado Cash is reportedly being arrested in Amsterdam over an alleged money laundering scheme. According to a new press release by Fiscal Infor...
What to know about crypto mixer Tornado Cash
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the popular Ethereum coin mixing service Tornado Cash. Most crypto wallets that have interacted with the...
As Government Takes on the Tornado Mixer, It May Reap a Whirlwind
Tornado Cash, then, is a network of peer-to-peer channels, rather than a discrete company, entity or service. So while the sanctioning document targets Tornado Cash by name, and lays out a series of s...
Someone Is Trolling Ethereum Celebs by Sending ETH From Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
A U.S. person includes anyone on U.S. soil as well as any American citizen abroad. Tornado Cash is a mixer, a protocol designed to pool funds in an effort to obfuscate the origin of any given transact...
USDC-Maker Circle Moves To Ban Tornado Cash Addresses After US Treasury Blacklists the Crypto Mixer
USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has blacklisted wallet addresses associated with popular crypto-mixing service Tornado Cash. On August 8th, the US government said it was banning Americans from using Tor...