Tornado Cash user disperses Ethereum across multiple addresses

Astaria project’s CTO Joseph Delong detected movement of small amounts of Ethereum from wallets of the sanctioned mixer Tornado Cash to addresses of well-known figures in the crypto industry.

Some members of the community speculated that this is a kind of protest against OFAC.

According to data from Etherscan, many transactions were for 0.1 ETH. Among the recipients are EthHub co-founder Anthony Sassano, crypto trader Loomdart, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, as well as TV host Jimmy Fallon, YouTuber Logan Paul, and Randy Zuckerberg.

“This could cause problems for recipients. For example, if ether is sent to the wallet of a US-based organization such as a cryptocurrency exchange, it may need to freeze the funds,”

The Block on the situation.

One Twitter user proposed the idea of creating an app that blocks unwanted incoming transfers to an Ethereum address.

It’s just about time to have an app that blocks incoming transfers to your eth address and allows deposit only after you approve the transaction

— Mukil Karthik 🌓🌒 (@karthik_mukil) August 8, 2022

In August, the U.S. sanctions the Tornado Cash website was sanctioned and related 39 Ethereum- and 6 USDC-addresses.

According to OFAC, since the mixer’s creation in 2019, criminals have laundered more than $7 billion in cryptocurrency with its help. More than $455 million of that is linked to the activities of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group.

Soon, Circle added Tornado Cash’s USDC addresses to the blacklist. Infrastructure platforms Infura and Alchemy blocked RPC calls to the mixing service.

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