ZK security engineer at Ethereum Foundation, smart contract auditor at Spearbit.
🌪Tornado Cash 101🌪
I hope this article helps you understand how Tornado Cash works on a technical level. I’ll assume you are already familiar with Smart contracts, merkle trees, and have a basic understanding of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) or Circom circuits. A Tornado Cash system lets an address A deposit some constant amount of ETH (say 1 ETH), and lets another address B withdraw it, breaking the link between these two addresses. On a high level, this is how it works:Before a deposit, A generates some secret ...
🌪Tornado Cash 101🌪
I hope this article helps you understand how Tornado Cash works on a technical level. I’ll assume you are already familiar with Smart contracts, merkle trees, and have a basic understanding of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) or Circom circuits. A Tornado Cash system lets an address A deposit some constant amount of ETH (say 1 ETH), and lets another address B withdraw it, breaking the link between these two addresses. On a high level, this is how it works:Before a deposit, A generates some secret ...
