TechFlow news — Ethereum mixing protocol Tornado Cash tweeted that the project is using tools developed by compliance firm Chainalysis to block access to its DApp from specific cryptocurrency wallet addresses sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), stating, “Maintaining financial privacy is crucial for preserving our freedom, but not at the expense of compliance.”
The project’s co-founder, Roman Semenov, later clarified via Twitter that the restriction applies only to user-facing decentralized applications (dapps) and does not affect the underlying smart contracts.
Previously, the U.S. Department of the Treasury linked North Korea’s Lazarus hacking group to the $625 million theft from Axie Infinity’s Ronin bridge and added the attackers’ Ethereum addresses to its sanctions list.
