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The Tornado Cash case

Every US enforcement document on Tornado Cash in date order, 23 August 2023 to 6 August 2025. Steps: conviction and charges. Each links its source.

The enforcement ledger holds 2 US documents on Tornado Cash, from the Justice Department, between 23 August 2023 and 6 August 2025. The latest on record, from the Justice Department on 6 August 2025: A Tornado Cash co-founder was convicted by a jury of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business moving over $1B.

Timeline

Date	Agency	Step	What the document says
23 Aug 2023	DOJ	Criminal charge	Two Tornado Cash founders were charged with conspiring to launder money, operate an unlicensed money transmitter and violate sanctions, through a mixer that allegedly handled over $1 billion, including for North Korea's Lazarus Group.
06 Aug 2025	DOJ	Conviction	A Tornado Cash co-founder was convicted by a jury of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business moving over $1B.

Each row links the agency’s own document. A step announced twice, by an agency’s headquarters and a regional office, is listed once. Charges are allegations unless a plea, conviction or settlement is stated, and a later step can change the outcome.

On Bitminer.io

What happened after the North Korea DeFi warning: Bybit, Tornado Cash, 71 addresses

Removed from the US sanctions list: Tornado Cash (90 crypto addresses, removed 21 March 2025)

The enforcement ledger is complete from January 2024 and holds only some earlier documents; filings that weren’t announced in a press release aren’t in it. People are described by their role, not named. Search Tornado Cash across every ledger

Cite this Bitminer.io, “The Tornado Cash case”, data to 6 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/case/tornado-cash/. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with credit and a link. How this is built · Frozen copy of November 2026’s data