The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has officially closed an appeal made by Coin Center concerning Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service. This decision occurred shortly after the U.S. Treasury removed Tornado Cash from its sanctions list, ending a three-year inclusion. Coin Center's executive director mentioned that the government declined to defend an interpretation of sanctions laws viewed as overly broad. Although the appeal is dropped, the developers of Tornado Cash remain on trial facing criminal charges related to money laundering and sanctions violations.
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.
The government did not want to continue to defend an interpretation of sanctions laws that seemed too broad.
This is the official end to our court battle over the statutory authority behind the TC sanctions.
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 facing criminal charges.
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