The software developer arrested this week over suspected of involvement in the Tornado Cash crypto mixing service is Alexey Pertsev, his wife has told The Block today, confirming earlier speculation o...
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crypto execs slam arrest of suspected Tornado Cash developer
Crypto industry executives reacted with alarm at the arrest of a developer suspected of involvement in Tornado Cash. The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) arrested an unident...
Tornado Cash DAO votes to take partial control over treasury funds
The Tornado Cash DAO community has voted in favor of adding the DAO’s governance as a signatory to the treasury’s multi-signatory (multisig) wallet. The treasury looks after about $21.6 million across...
Tornado Cash’s Channels Keep Disappearing
Tornado Cash’s website, governance forum, and Discord server are offline Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and utensil manufacturers—have not been arrested The telegram channel was still live The Treasury D...
Tornado Cash: Down by >50%, are sanctions an opportunity for TORN holders
Following an announcement dated 8 August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) barred U.S. residents from using Tornado Cash. By doing so, the agency added it to its Specially Designated Nation...
Tornado Cash Governance Token TORN Shudders More Than 57% Since the US Government Ban – Bitcoin News
Amid the crackdown against Tornado Cash, associated addresses, contributing developers, and anyone who uses the mixing platform, the project’s governance token called TORN has shuddered in value. TORN...
Tornado Cash DAO shuts down as it “can’t fight the US” and keep contributors safe
CryptoSlate spoke exclusively with a member of the Tornado Cash team who has been granted anonymity for their own protection and will be referred to as “TC Member” for the sake of this article. The To...
Tornado Cash Linked Sanctioned Addresses Blocked by Aave
Reputable ENS addresses apparently got 0.1 ETH from sanctioned addresses. A Tornado Cash developer was apprehended in the Netherlands yesterday. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Unit...
Tornado Cash DAO Went Down Without any Information
Major crypto firms took action against Tornado Cash DAO. As Tornado cash DAO went offline after discussing ways to challenge sanctions. The major crypto firms Github, Circle, dYdX, Alchemy, and Infura...
DeFi protocols Aave, Uniswap, Balancer, ban users following OFAC sanctions on Tornado Cash
Several decentralized applications on the Ethereum network have implemented code changes to revoke access from “sanctioned” addresses. The currently identified protocols are Aave, Uniswap, Ren, Oasis,...
Tornado Cash’s Discord server and governance forum shuttered amid arrest
Tornado Cash’s Discord server has been removed following the imposition of US Treasury sanctions against the crypto mixing service. It’s unclear whether the server was deleted by a Tornado...
Tornado Cash, Mark Cuban, Housing Market
Welcome to the 80th Weekend Shift! What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write ab...
Crackdown on Tornado Cash Was Just Round 1
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) This week the U.S. government shook the entire crypto world to its core. The Treasury Department sanctioned the crypto m...
Tornado Cash DAO goes down without explanation following vote on treasury funds
The Tornado Cash DAO went offline after many social media users reported the community discussing ways to challenge sanctions recently imposed by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Fore...
Tornado Cash DAO discusses legal avenues to challenge US sanctions
Tornado DAO members are currently discussing ways the community can challenge the recent sanctions imposed on Tornado Cash by the US Treasury. This comes as one Tornado Cash developer was arrested tod...
Here’s How Crypto Twitter Reacts to Attack on Tornado Cash
Vladislav Sopov Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) arrested developer of Tornado Cash mixer after project was sanctioned by OFAC; Crypto Twitter has something to say Last week, the U.S. watchdog OFAC put...
Tornado Cash Ethereum Token Down Over 50% After Sanctions
In the week following the sanctioning of the Tornado Cash website by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the price of the token underpinning the system is down 56%,...
Is DeFi In Trouble? Aave Blocking All Addresses Linked To Tornado Cash
The DeFi has faced a setback after the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash. Several Twitter users today revealed that DeFi lending g...
Tornado Developer Arrested As its Network Shutdown
13 mins ago | 3 mins read Exchange News Alexey Pertsev, a developer of Tornado Cash, was arrested by Dutch officials. Tornado Cash DAO reportedly went offline. Ethereum (ETH) network’s “Merge” has bee...
Crypto Reacts: Arrest Of The Alleged Tornado Cash Developer, A Watershed Moment
What’s the story around Tornado Cash? The U.S. Department of the Treasury made its case in a press release, but the question still lingers. Because, as many people have pointed out, Tornado Cash is no...
Tornado DAO Grapples With Arrests as Discord, Governance Forum Go Dark
The Discord server and Tornado DAO governance forum linked to the recently sanctioned crypto mixing service Tornado Cash appear to have been disabled. Tornado Cash is an Ethereum-centric mixing tool w...
Tornado Cash Token Loses 24% Of Value After Developer Arrest
TORN, the token of Tornado Cash, plummeted by nearly a quarter in the last 24 hours after Dutch authorities arrested a suspected developer for the crypto transaction mixing protocol in Amsterdam on Fr...
‘Welcome to the War on Code’: Crypto Twitter Reacts to Arrest of Alleged Tornado Cash Dev
Today’s news of the Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) arresting a “suspected” Tornado Cash developer is making waves on social media, with the crypto community and privacy advocates decrying the move as...
Dutch Police Arrest Alleged Tornado Cash Dev, More Arrests ‘Not Ruled Out’: Financial Crimes Unit
The Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) today announced it had arrested a “suspected developer” of Tornado Cash, the Ethereum-centric mixing service sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury earlier this week. “On ...
Tornado Cash Developer is Arrested in Amsterdam
On August 10, the Dutch Crime Agency (FIOD) announced the arrest of a 29-year-old developer of Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer built on the Ethereum network that was sanctioned earlier this month...
MakerDAO Founder Calls on DAI to Drop Dollar Peg Amid Tornado Cash Fallout
In the aftermath of the Treasury Department’s stunning decision Monday to ban Ethereum coin mixing tool Tornado Cash, many crypto industry leadwalletsers are reconsidering their exposure to centralize...
DeFi Exchange dYdX Blocking Addresses Associated With Tornado Cash
Decentralized crypto exchange dYdX announced it had begun blocking users that had interacted with the recently-sanctioned Tornado Cash. “Many accounts were blocked because a certain portion of the wal...
Dutch Cops Arrest 29-Year-Old Suspected Tornado Cash Developer
On Friday, the Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) arrested a 29-year-old man in Amsterdam suspected to be the developer of Tornado Cash, which was recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury. The suspected ...
Crypto Community Responds to Tornado Cash Sanctions, Privacy Advocates Say ‘There Are Many Legitimate Reasons to Seek Financial Anonymity’ – Privacy Bitcoin News
The U.S. government banning the ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash and the enforcement that has followed has the crypto community in an uproar about the event. A large number of crypto and privacy a...