Tornado Cash News

Crypto detective ZachXBT has identified the alleged PrismaFi hacker, exposing their involvement in the $11.1 million theft and subsequent demands. Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT uncovered an alleged attacker behind the PrismaFi hack, which left the protocol without $11.1 million worth of…

FARM, the native token of the yield farming protocol Harvest Finance, was trending in the U.S. as it was exchanging hands at $88, up 80% in the past day. At the time of writing, FARM had a 24-hour trading volume…

Permissionless money market protocol OpenLeverage has reportedly incurred a loss of $236,000, allegedly due to a hacker attack funded via Tornado Cash. Decentralized margin trading protocol OpenLeverage has apparently suffered a hacker attack, losing as much as $236,000 worth of…

Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, seeks to dismiss charges accusing him of running a money laundering operation and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Stablecoin protocol Prisma Finance was breached earlier this week, causing the platform to lose almost $11.6 million.

PeckShield reported the movement of assets from addresses related to the hacking of the Prisma Finance protocol.

Exploiters who hacked Heco Bridge laundered the stolen assets through the controversial cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.

North Korea’s hacker organization Lazarus is using Tornado Cash again despite U.S. sanctions against the popular cryptocurrency mixer.

The Arbitrum blockchain community initiated a vote on a proposal to fund the legal defense of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer team.

The WOOFi development team has acknowledged an exploit of its swap contract on Arbitrum while assuring users that all other WOO contracts remain safe. WOOFi’s smart contract for swapping tokens on Arbitrum WooPPV2 suffered an exploit, resulting in a loss…

American crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has terminated a fundraising campaign aimed at raising legal defense funds for Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, co-founder and developer, respectively, of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.  The fundraiser was initiated following a Jan. 22 video…

Amid the news that Binance would delist Monero, should the crypto community brace for the decline of the era of anonymous tokens, or will alternative solutions emerge? In the world of cryptocurrency, transactions are logged in a public ledger, meaning…

Ex-CIA contractor and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged to support the legal defense fund for the Tornado Cash developer. In an X post on Jan. 23, Edward Snowden called for support for the legal defense fund of Roman Storm,…

Coinbase, Consensys, and Paradigm are urging the U.S. Treasury to reconsider its proposed reporting requirements for crypto mixer transactions, citing a lack of specificity and concerns over resource allocation. In a comment to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network…

Notorious crypto mixing service Tornado Cash laundered more than half a billion worth of crypto in 2023. Although the U.S. imposed sanctions against Tornado Cash in late 2022, the mixing service is still helping criminals launder hundreds of millions worth…

Several crypto industry stakeholders have pending lawsuits in the U.S. and other jurisdictions following a busy year for government prosecutors and digital asset attorneys. 2023 featured crypto’s largest court case to date coupled with a multi-billion dollar settlement between the…