U.S. Court Brings Coin Center’s Tornado Cash Appeal To A Close
Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Court Brings Coin Center’s Tornado Cash Appeal To A Close Coin Center’s appeal to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) regarding Tornado Cash is now over. This post U.S. Court Brings Coin Center’s Tornado Cash Appeal To A Close first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Frank Corva.
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U.S. Court Brings Coin Center’s Tornado Cash Appeal To A Close
On July 3, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit agreed to end an appeal that crypto advocacy group Coin Center made to OFAC regarding the Ethereum-based mixing service Tornado Cash.
This decision by the court occurred approximately two and a half months after the U.S. Treasury Department removed Tornado Cash from its OFAC Sanctions list after having kept it on the list for over three years.
The dismissal of this case officially ends Coin Center’s challenging OFAC’s decision to include Tornado Cash on its sanctions list.
Peter Van Valkenburgh, executive director at Coin Center commented on X earlier today that the government did not want to continue to defend an interpretation of sanctions laws that seemed too broad.
This appeal being dropped comes in the wake of a memo from the U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in which he stated that the U.S. Department of Justice will no longer target crypto technology like mixers.
Tornado Cash Developers Still On Trial
Despite the fact that this appeal has been dropped and Tornado Cash is no longer on the OFAC sanctions list, the creators of the technology are still on facing criminal charges.
Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm is scheduled to appear in federal court in the Southern District of New York on Monday, July 14, 2025.
To resolve any confusion, my criminal trial, led by the SDNY, is scheduled for July 14, 2025 https://t.co/C8nIVeyuEe— Roman Storm
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