ລາຍລະອຽດການຟ້ອງຮ້ອງຂອງ OFAC ຄວາມກັງວົນຕໍ່ການລົງໂທດຂອງອຸດສາຫະກໍາ Crypto

As legal action picks up, the crypto industry is increasingly uncertain about potential fallout from recent sanctions against mixing service ເງິນສົດ Tornado. 

ໃນ​ເດືອນ​ສິງ​ຫາ, ເງິນສົດ Tornado — allegedly used to launder stolen funds linked to major hacks — was added to the Office of Foreign Asset Control’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, along with 45 associated Ethereum wallet addresses. 

Complying to the sanctions and parsing out what this means for the future of the crypto industry, especially with regards to privacy, has been a challenge, industry members said. 

Around 92% of the crypto ecosystem has exposure to Tornado Cash, Liat Shetret, director of global policy and regulation at Elliptic, reported during a Blockworks’ webinar ວັນພະຫັດ. 

“What that’s meant on the ground for crypto businesses is that their rate of false positives skyrocketed because once the sanctions dropped on Tornado Cash, then they were really immediately obligated to not have any kind of exposure to Tornado Cash,” Shetret said. “And yet that remains a little bit gray, depending on OFAC language and how folks interpret it.”

The Treasury alleges that North Korea-sponsored hacking collective ກຸ່ມລາຊະໂລ, which in March stole over $620 million in cryptocurrency from the Ronin Bridge protocol, attempted to conceal the origin of the funds with Tornado Cash. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis agrees. 

“OFAC’s designation of Tornado Cash is a crucial moment in the fight against cryptocurrency-based crime,” a Chainalysis ບົດ​ລາຍ​ງານ said. “For one thing, it’s especially timely: More cryptocurrency is being stolen than ever, and in almost every hack we’ve observed this year, Tornado Cash has received at least some of the stolen funds.”

Regardless of the users employing Tornado Cash for legal reasons, lawmakers generally have a hard time justifying any use of the technology, according to lobbyists. 

“Unfortunately, the national security hawks in Congress way out number the privacy hawks, and by a very large portion,” Ron Hammond, director of government relations at the Blockchain Association, said during the webinar. “Capitol Hill will always be more about taking more privacy rights slowly away in the name of national security.” 

Cryptocurrency investors and users with ether locked in Tornado Cash moved forward with a lawsuit against OFAC Thursday, arguing that the regulatory authority overstepped its power by sanctioning the software. The legal effort is ໄດ້ຮັບທຶນຈາກ Coinbase, ເຊິ່ງກໍາລັງສູ້ກັນ ການ​ສູ້​ຮົບ​ລະ​ບຽບ​ການ​ ຂອງຕົນເອງເນື່ອງຈາກຄວາມບໍ່ແນ່ນອນກ່ຽວກັບການຈັດປະເພດ token ຍັງສືບຕໍ່. 

ການຟ້ອງຮ້ອງ, ຍື່ນໃນສານລັດຖະບານກາງໃນເຂດຕາເວັນຕົກຂອງເທັກຊັດ, ມີໂຈດຫົກຄົນ: ພະນັກງານ Coinbase Tyler Almeida ແລະ Nate Welch, ຜູ້ຮ່ວມກໍ່ຕັ້ງ Prysmatic Labs Preston Van Loon, ວິສະວະກອນ GridPlus Kevin Vitale, ຜູ້ສະຫນັບສະຫນູນ Ethereum ແລະນັກລົງທຶນທູດ Alex Fisher, ແລະອະດີດ. ວິສະວະກອນ Amazon Joseph Van Loon. 

“To sanction a software is a very unique and interesting piece, and we’ve seen that the aftermath of this OFAC now has been delivered with a suit against them…so we’re gonna see a legal battle,” Shetret said. “I’m really quite desperate about this topic because it’s huge. It’s a massive issue and I think it’s really caused a lot of confusion.”

ມັນບໍ່ແມ່ນຄັ້ງທຳອິດທີ່ OFAC ລົງໂທດເຄື່ອງປະສົມເງິນສະກຸນເງິນດິຈິຕອນ. ໃນເດືອນພຶດສະພາ, ເຈົ້າຫນ້າທີ່ໄດ້ເປົ້າຫມາຍ Blender.io, ການບໍລິການສູນກາງກຸ່ມ Lazarus ຍັງຖືກກ່າວຫາວ່າໃຊ້ເພື່ອປົກປິດເງິນທີ່ຖືກລັກ. ແຕ່ Tornado Cash ແມ່ນແຕກຕ່າງກັນ, ຜູ້ຊ່ຽວຊານບາງຄົນເວົ້າວ່າ. 

“Blender.io was designated back in May of this year, but it’s different and in a pretty meaningful way, which is that was a centralized custodial service and [Tornado Cash]…is just code,” Michael Mosier, former deputy chief in the Department of Justice’s money laundering and asset recovery section, said during a Twitter Spaces discussion last month.

“Just because Tornado Cash is now sanctioned, all that activity, it may be lulled for a day or two, but the [mixing] activity has spiked back up again on a variety of other platforms,” Shetret said. “The activity has not stopped, it’s just moved.”

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