Tornado Cash contributor reveals DAO shut down as it “can’t fight the US”, need to keep contributors safe

CryptoSlate spoke exclusively with a subordinate of the Tornado Cash squad who has been granted anonymity for their ain extortion and volition beryllium referred to arsenic “TC Member” for the involvement of this article. The Tornado Cash contributor told CryptoSlate’s Akiba that “multi-sigs unopen down the DAO… we’re each out. Better harmless than sorry, unless it each calms down a bit.”

Tornado Cash DAO multi-sig wallet deleted.

When asked astir the TRM Labs API causing protocols specified arsenic Aave, Uniswap, and Balancer to authorisation addresses linked with Tornado Cash, TC Member declared “there goes decentralization” successful what they described arsenic a “shitty situation.”

Following the closing of the Tornado Cash DAO, “DAO funds person been returned to Governance contracts, multisig deleted.” The removal of the DAO multi-sig indicates that this whitethorn beryllium the extremity for Tornado Cash, arsenic TC Member confirmed. While clarifying that this is lone their opinion, TC Member reaffirmed that

“Multisgs unopen down the DAO… Tornado Cash can’t combat the U.S.”

TC Member asserted that “nobody did thing wrong… [the] satellite is fucked up” astir the incident. They confirmed that the DAO was unopen down “to support members harmless and debar ineligible issues” arsenic the concern is “dangerous for each devs,” adjacent those extracurricular the Tornado Cash ecosystem.

Six degrees of tornado currency is simply a thing. Even crazier, portion lone 0.03% of addresses received ETH from tornado cash, astir fractional the full ETH web is lone 2 hops from a tornado currency receiver. pic.twitter.com/LDU9g0r7tQ

— ElBarto_Crypto (@ElBarto_Crypto) August 13, 2022

Arrest of Aleksei Pertsev

TC Member besides confirmed that they judge Roman Storm, Co-Founder of Tornado Cash, was looking for attorneys successful the Netherlands “a fewer days ago,” which “must beryllium for Aleksey.” The accusation came to TC Member’s cognition earlier the apprehension indicating that Aleksey whitethorn person been alert of what was coming.

The wide temper of TC Member was despondent arsenic they admitted they needed a abrogation aft the troubling past week. The aboriginal of Tornado Cash looks highly gloomy arsenic its TORN token is down 20% connected the day. The relation of the TORN governance token is presently arsenic known owed to the DAO being closed and the multi-sig wallet deleted.

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