On July 3, 2025, the United States Court of Appeal for the eleventh circuit agreed to put an end to an appeal that the group of coins of the cryptocurrency defense group made to the Ofac regarding the Tornado service of the mixing service based on Ethereum.
This decision by the Court occurred about two and a half months after the United States Treasury Department has removed the cash cash from its list of Ofac sanctions after keeping it on the list for over three years.
The dismissal of this case officially ends the challenge of the Ofac of the Centro of Mineta to include cash in its list of sanctions.
Peter Van Valkenburgh, executive director of the Coin Center commented x before the government did not want to continue to defend an interpretation of the laws on sanctions that seemed too wide.
This appeal that is abandoned comes in the wake of a reminder of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the United States Todd Blanche in which he said that the United States Department of Justice are no longer targeted to cryptographic technology as mixers.
Tornado cash developers are still on trial
Despite the fact that this appeal has been eliminated and that Tornado Cash is no longer in the list of Ofac sanctions, the creators of technology are still in the face of criminal accusations.
The co-founder and developer of Tornado in cash Roman Storm should appear at the Federal Court in the southern district of New York on Monday 14 July 2025.
Storm is currently facing money recycling and accusations of violations of the sanctions, however, he said he did not take profit from the illicit transactions that were carried out through the cash service of the Tornado.
In September of this year, Storm’s lawyers presented a motion to reject the accusations, stating that Tornado Cash did not satisfy the definition of a money transmitter pursuant to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) because technology does not take control of user funds (i.e. private keys). The Court has denied the motion, however, stating that the scope of BSA does not require technology to take control of user funds.
Alexey Pertsev, another co-founder of Tornado in cash, has been declared guilty of money laundering in the Netherlands in May 2024 and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Roman Senov, the third co-founder of Tornado Cash, was free and sought by the FBI from August 2023