Crypto Obfuscator Tornado Doesn’t Plan to Comply With Sanctions

One of the founders of Tornado Cash, among the most popular services to obfuscate cryptocurrency transactions, said it doesn’t need to comply with sanctions being imposed in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

Designed to preserve privacy, the protocol does this by breaking the link between the sender and receiver’s addresses on transactions sent over the Ethereum blockchain. The project is smart contract-based, meaning that decisions are made by pre-written software programs instead of individuals. It also doesn’t provide any custodian services or have a centralized host for its website. Individuals can access Tornado Cash by using the Ethereum ...