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Venable LLP

A Legal Whirlwind Settles: Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Tornado Cash

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On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash, the decentralized cryptocurrency mixer it had blacklisted in August 2022....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Fifth Circuit Overturns OFAC Sanctions on Blockchain-based Privacy Technology

On November 26, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) against a decentralized cryptocurrency mixing service (a...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Don’t Get Caught Up in the Mix: OFAC Sanctions Another Crypto Mixer for Potential Violations of Sanctions Regulations and FinCEN...

U.S. government agencies continue to take action against cryptocurrency mixing services that enable cybercriminals to obfuscate the trail of stolen proceeds on public blockchains stemming from illicit cyber activity. On...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

The “DAO Jungle” Chronicles: Federal Judge Upholds Treasury Department’s Sanction of Tornado Cash for Involvement in Laundering...

In two prior posts, this blog tracked the ongoing intrigue of how the various branches of the United States government interact with blockchain and cryptocurrency organizations. We discussed the Wyoming law allowing...more

K2 Integrity

The North Korean Crypto Threat

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Executive Summary - The North Korean threat to the crypto ecosystem is the highest form of immediate risk to the crypto-economy driven by a regime that seeks to profit from its misuse to reinforce its regime and fuel all its...more

King & Spalding

Virtual Currency as a Threat to National Security?

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In the past, sanctioned jurisdictions like Venezuela have embraced virtual currency as a way to bypass channels that involve U.S. dollars, blunting the impact of U.S. economic sanctions policies aimed at isolating those...more

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