Kharon Quick Take: OFAC Designation of Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash

Join Kharon for a Quick Take briefing on the U.S. government’s recent designation of Tornado Cash and Kharon’s findings related to the virtual currency mixer’s developers and founders.

On August 8, the U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Tornado Cash, noting that the service has been used to launder more than $7 billion worth of cryptocurrency — including funds of criminal origin. Two days after the U.S. action, Dutch authorities arrested a Tornado Cash developer for involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering.