随着 Tornado Cash存款达到 $2.8B，Pertsev 的拘留延长
Tornado Cash的开发者 Alexey Pertsev 将长期处于审前拘留状态。核心开发人员表达了他的悲伤，表示这一决定将影响他准备上诉的能力。
佩尔采夫在他的 X 账户上宣布了这一消息。他表示，尽管拘留时间延长，他仍将坚定地为正义而战。
X 上的加密社区一直给予支持。最近，Pertsev 收到了 MolochDAO 的创建者、加密货币领域资深人士 Ameen Soleimani 捐赠的 50 ETH。 Soleimani 表示，他愿意再捐出 50 ETH 的捐款，以帮助 Pertsev Alexey 资助他正在进行的案件费用。
我很遗憾地宣布，尽管我们尽了最大努力，法院还是决定延长我的审前拘留。这一决定使我准备上诉的能力变得非常复杂，但我仍然决心继续为正义而战。
感谢您一直以来的支持。🙏🏼
— Alexey Pertsev (@alex_pertsev) 2024 年 11 月 21 日
Tornado Cash still operational despite US sanctions
In August 2022, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash. The cryptocurrency mixer was sanctioned due to its alleged involvement in laundering more than $7 billion since its inception in 2019.
The money laundering activities included a staggering amount of $455 million stolen by the North Korean organization Lazarus Group.
Tornado Cash remains active with a total of $619.42 million value locked and a market capitalization of $13.14 million, according to DeFiLlama. The protocol still receives millions of dollars of deposits on a monthly basis. Last month, Tornado Cash received deposits of $176.48 million and processed withdrawals of $72.91 million.
According to FlipSide Crypto, Tornado Cash recorded a total of $2.8 billion in deposits and $1.3 billion in withdrawals in 2024.
On November 14, seven Democratic members of the US House of Representatives demanded answers from Treasury officials on the continued operations of Tornado Cash despite the sanctions. The Democratic members issued an official letter addressing the Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen.
“We write to request additional information about the ongoing use of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash after sanctions were imposed in 2022.” stated the letter.
The seven members including Brad Sherman, an anti-crypto Congress member, expressed their concerns and said, “Despite sanctions, Tornado Cash has remained online and continues to function as decentralized smart contracts.”
The letter stated that other centralized crypto mixers like Blender and Sinbad have been taken down, but Tornado Cash still operates, even seeing a resurgence in deposits and withdrawals. The Congress members also wrote about the involvement of Tornado Cash in facilitating money laundering for hackers, cybercriminals, and terrorist organizations
The letter ended with a list of questions, requesting the agency update the numbers of illicit transactions processed through the decentralized mixer. In addition, they questioned if the agency would impose secondary sanctions on people who have used the mixer. The Congress members who contributed to the letter also questioned if the Treasury Department has the tools to enforce the sanctions.
They requested the department provide answers by December 2.
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