What’s the Deal? The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has removed Tornado Cash from its SDN List—the sanctions blacklist it landed on back in August 2022 for allegedly facilitating money laundering (think $455M tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group). The service itself, its website, and associated Ethereum addresses are now free from restrictions. This comes after legal battles: U.S. courts, including an appeals court in Texas in early 2025, ruled that Tornado Cash’s smar...

What’s the Deal? The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has removed Tornado Cash from its SDN List—the sanctions blacklist it landed on back in August 2022 for allegedly facilitating money laundering (think $455M tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group). The service itself, its website, and associated Ethereum addresses are now free from restrictions. This comes after legal battles: U.S. courts, including an appeals court in Texas in early 2025, ruled that Tornado Cash’s smar...