Tornado Cash is a cryptocurrency mixing protocol that allows users to send tokens privately by pooling and shuffling funds to obscure their origin

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Tornado Cash is simply an Ethereum smart contract, which mixes the coins, making their origin untraceable

The Netherlands resident, who has been in detention since 2022, is in the process of appealing his conviction on money laundering charges in connection with his work on developing Tornado Cash, a coin-mixing service used to mask the flow of Ethereum transactions. A Dutch court handed down a 64-month prison sentence to Pertsev in May 2024.