Court ends Coin Center-US Treasury appeal over Tornado Cash

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The US Appeals Court has dismissed Coin Center's legal challenge against Treasury sanctions on Tornado Cash, ending the case ahead of the developer’s criminal trial

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Turner Wright

Publish date

July 8, 2025

Publisher

Cointelegraph

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/coin-center-us-treasury-appeal-tornado-cash

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In a Thursday filing, the appellate court granted a motion to vacate a lower court ruling and remand with instructions to dismiss as part of a joint filing with Coin Center and the US Treasury. The dismissal, according to the court, would essentially conclude Coin Center’s legal challenge against the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

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In January, the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ordered the repeal of OFAC sanctions against the mixing service as part of the case filed by the six Tornado Cash users.

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Alexey Pertsev, another Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, has already been found guilty of money laundering in the Netherlands and sentenced to more than five years in prison. Roman Semenov, the other developer named in the same indictment as Storm, was still at large at the time of publication.

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