Privacy supporters consider Crypto mixers an essential piece of equipment for maintaining anonymity. Officials in the government refer to crypto mixers as instruments of money laundering. Crypto mixers have been responsible for transferring billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. As a result of penalties announced by the Treasury Department against Tornado Cash, an Ethereum crypto … Read more
Hackers took advantage of a flaw in the liquidity pool of the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Acala, which is based in Polkadot, and caused its aUSD stablecoin to fall by 99%. This caused the list of not-so-stable stablecoins to gain a new entry. According to data provided by CoinGecko, the value of the stablecoin dropped … Read more
The Netherlands Crime Agency (FIOD) announced today that it had apprehended a “suspected developer” of Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash is the Ethereum-centric mixing service that was sanctioned by the United States Treasury earlier this week. An individual who was 29 years old was taken into custody by the FIOD in Amsterdam on August 10th. “He … Read more
Binance had decided to take action and become involved by monitoring what was happening at Curve. The majority of the cash that cybercriminals took through the DeFi protocol Curve Finance earlier this week has reportedly been frozen or recovered, as stated by the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao. CZ disclosed on the 10th of August … Read more
The Fight Against Tornado Cash Is Only in the beginning. This past week, the United States government delivered a devastating blow to the entirety of the cryptocurrency industry. Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer, was sanctioned by the Treasury Department, along with several crypto wallet addresses affiliated with the service. Because of this, the protocol and … Read more
A civil enforcement action was brought against a man by the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today. The guy is accused of conducting a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme with a total value of $12 million in order to fund his extravagant lifestyle. Rathnakishore Giri of New Albany, Ohio, is accused of pretending to be a … Read more