The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ended the appeal made by Coin Center regarding Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based mixing service, after the U.S. Treasury Department removed Tornado Cash from its OFAC Sanctions list.
Coin Center's challenge of OFAC's decision to include Tornado Cash on the sanctions list has been officially dismissed.
The U.S. government did not want to defend a broad interpretation of sanctions laws as stated by Peter Van Valkenburgh, executive director at Coin Center.
Despite Coin Center's appeal being dropped and Tornado Cash removed from sanctions list, Tornado Cash's creators are still facing criminal charges, with one of the co-founders scheduled for trial in July 2025.