Tornado Cash INVOLVES Tornado Cash
The Tornado Cash sanctions incident concerns the US government's sanctions against the Tornado Cash mixer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“they put Tornado Cash under sanctions”
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Also: Tornado Cash mixer, Tornado Cash protocol
A non-custodial Ethereum mixing service implemented with smart contracts to pool funds and allow withdrawals to fresh wallets.
A non-custodial Ethereum mixing service implemented with smart contracts to pool funds and allow withdrawals to fresh wallets.
“That’s what led them to Tornado Cash.”
“You send your money to it, it gets thrown in a pool with a bunch of other people’s money”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | Ethereum | Explicit | 147 |
| outgoing | USES | smart contracts | Explicit | 147 |
| outgoing | DEVELOPED_BY | Andre Pertsev | Uncertain | 147 |
| outgoing | DEVELOPED_BY | Roman Storm | Uncertain | 147 |
| outgoing | DEVELOPED_BY | Roman Semenov | Uncertain | 147 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | DAO | Explicit | 147 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | North Korea | Uncertain | 147 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Tornado Cash | Explicit | 147 |
| incoming | USES | Vitalik Buterin | Explicit | 147 |
| incoming | USES | Jack Rhysider | Explicit | 147 |
| incoming | USES | Axie Infinity | Explicit | 147 |
Tornado Cash INVOLVES Tornado Cash
The Tornado Cash sanctions incident concerns the US government's sanctions against the Tornado Cash mixer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“they put Tornado Cash under sanctions”
Tornado Cash USES Ethereum
Tornado Cash operates as a mixer on Ethereum and interacts directly with the Ethereum blockchain.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 147 Details
“a way to have private transactions on Ethereum”
“get my wallet to interact with it directly, giving it my money”
Tornado Cash USES smart contracts
Tornado Cash uses smart-contract code to pool funds and allow withdrawals to fresh wallets without the creators controlling the funds.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 147 Details
“I was telling you about smart contracts before, where you can add code to the Ethereum blockchain”
“The smart contract is programmed to handle the money”
Tornado Cash DEVELOPED_BY Andre Pertsev
Geoff says Andre Pertsev was one of the apparent creators of Tornado Cash, while noting that legal proceedings require caution.
Uncertain Confidence 94% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“three people, it seems, created it. They are Andre Pertsev, Roman Storm, and Roman Semenov”
Tornado Cash DEVELOPED_BY Roman Storm
Geoff says Roman Storm was one of the apparent creators of Tornado Cash, while noting that legal proceedings require caution.
Uncertain Confidence 94% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“three people, it seems, created it. They are Andre Pertsev, Roman Storm, and Roman Semenov”
Tornado Cash DEVELOPED_BY Roman Semenov
Geoff says Roman Semenov was one of the apparent creators of Tornado Cash, while noting that legal proceedings require caution.
Uncertain Confidence 94% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“three people, it seems, created it. They are Andre Pertsev, Roman Storm, and Roman Semenov”
Tornado Cash ASSOCIATED_WITH DAO
Tornado Cash is described as operating as a decentralized autonomous organization after its apparent creators stepped back.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“It’s running on its own, the Tornado Cash DAO”
“Tornado Cash was one of these DAOs”
Tornado Cash ASSOCIATED_WITH North Korea
The US government claimed or believed that Tornado Cash was working for North Korea; this was presented as an allegation rather than an established fact.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“this mixer, this Tornado Cash mixer, is working for the North Koreans, we believe, we claim”
Vitalik Buterin USES Tornado Cash
Geoff says Vitalik Buterin used a mixer to donate to Ukraine privately, referring to Tornado Cash in context.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Geoff White EP 147 Details
“He said, look, this is exactly what I did. I wanted to donate to Ukraine. I didn’t want to do it publicly, and that is the hazard of using crypto, is it is public, so I used a mixer”
Jack Rhysider USES Tornado Cash
Jack says he used Tornado Cash to move funds from a public donation wallet into a personal wallet for privacy.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 147 Details
“I’ve used Tornado Cash before”
“I need a way to move this money into a personal wallet”
Axie Infinity USES Tornado Cash
The thieves who stole funds from Axie Infinity sent hundreds of millions of dollars through Tornado Cash to launder or obscure its origin.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 147 Details
“The people who stole the $600 million from Axie Infinity also noticed Tornado Cash and sent hundreds of millions of dollars to it”