Tornado Cash

A 29-year-old man was detained by Dutch officials in Amsterdam on suspicion of aiding in the concealment of illicit financial flows and the facilitation of money laundering through the cryptocurrency service Tornado Cash. What Happened: One of the service's developers, Alexey Pertsev, was...

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin revealed that he used a now-blacklisted crypto mixer Tornado Cash (CRYPTO: TORN) to donate funds to Ukraine. What Happened: “I'll out myself as someone who has used TC [Tornado Cash] to donate to this exact cause...

Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin outlined a “low-tech” approach to adding a significant amount of privacy to the NFT ecosystem. What Happened: In a blog post shared on Monday, Buterin suggested incorporating stealth addresses for ERC 721...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao ("CZ") sent a tweet on July 11 alarming the Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) community of a potential exploit on Uniswap (CRYPTO: UNI). What Happened: Uniswap is among the original DeFi applications on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). The smart contracts that comprise...

Tornado Cash (CRYPTO: TORN), the most widely used coin mixer, is going open source. What Happened: In an announcement on Thursday, the team behind the decentralized protocol said that it would be making Tornado Cash Classic’s User Interface open source. “Ever wanted to dig in ...

The thieves that stole $655 million by hacking Ronin back in March were able to move tens of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) to a cryptocurrency mixer to launder their proceeds in a single week. What Happened: Analysis conducted by Coindesk reveals that hackers...

Members of the Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) community speculated about whether the SHIB whale who purchased 3 trillion tokens could actually be the creators behind the scam token Squid Game (CRYPTO: SQUID). What Happened: On Dec. 8, WhaleStats reported a whale purchased 3 trillion SHIB tokens...