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    The Block (@TheBlockCo)

    NEW: A New York jury found cybersecurity consultant Jonathan Spalletta guilty of stealing nearly $55 million in cryptocurrency from the Uranium Finance exchange in two attacks in 2021, Bloomberg reports. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors said Spalletta used crypto mixers, including Tornado Cash, to launder the funds and later spent millions on rare Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering cards, an ancient Roman coin and a piece of the Wright brothers' Flyer.

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    The Block (@TheBlockCo)

    THE BLOCK: Treasury's FinCEN is withdrawing a 2023 proposal that would have designated international crypto mixing a "primary money laundering concern," citing concerns the rule could have "a chilling effect on legitimate activity."

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    Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain)

    Term Labs Suffers $8.5M Governance Exploit Affecting Vaults DeFi lending protocol @term_labs suffered a governance exploit affecting its vaults. According to PeckShieldAlert and CertiK Alert, the attack resulted in losses of about $8.5 million, with the exploiter holding roughly 2,843 ETH and $1.6 million DAI. The attacker address was initially funded with 2 ETH from Tornado Cash. Term Labs said it is investigating the incident and will share further details.

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    Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain)

    User Loses Over 1,000 ETH in Phishing Attack After Using Tornado Cash’s Expired Official Domain According to community users, a user clicked an old link left in a related bookmark and was redirected to a phishing site through the expired official domain tornado. cash, which had been taken over by an attacker, resulting in 1,010 ETH being drained by hackers within 12 hours. Tornado Cash’s original official domain tornado. cash expired after the team failed to renew it amid OFAC sanctions, after which phishing attackers registered the domain and set up a fake frontend to steal deposit credentials. Tracking by the victim showed that the stolen funds are currently held mainly in the hackers’ addresses, while the group has allegedly stolen nearly 4,000 ETH through similar methods over the past 12 months.

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    Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain)

    Kelp DAO Hacker Has Laundered Nearly All $220M in Unfrozen Funds, Closing the Recovery Window According to The Defiant, on-chain tracking data shows that the hackers behind the Kelp DAO bridge exploit, identified as North Korean threat group TraderTraitor, have laundered approximately $220 million in unfrozen funds through privacy-focused channels including THORChain, Wasabi, Tornado Cash, and Umbra. Only around $1.7 million remains in the hackers’ original wallets, indicating that the window for transaction-by-transaction tracing and direct recovery of the unfrozen assets has largely closed.

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    Arkham (@arkham)

    The Kyber Network Exploiter is moving stolen funds to Tornado Cash. The attacker, Andean Medjedovic, drained $48.8M from KyberSwap in late 2023. Medjedovic also hacked Indexed Finance for $16.5M, 2 years prior. He was charged by the FBI in 2025. Did he… get away with it?

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    The Block (@TheBlock__)

    Vitalik Buterin condemns criminalization of code in appeal for Tornado Cash developer https://www.theblock.co/post/384886/vitalik-buterin-tornado-cash-developer-appeal?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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    The Block (@TheBlock__)

    Unleash hacker begins laundering $4 million in ETH through Tornado Cash https://www.theblock.co/post/383981/unleash-hacker-laundering-4-million-eth-tornado-cash?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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    Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain)

    According to SlowMist monitoring, a user lost nearly $50M in USDT to an address-poisoning scam. The victim mistakenly copied a look-alike address from transaction history and transferred 49,999,950 USDT to the attacker. The stolen funds were then converted to ETH, split into multiple wallets, and partly moved into Tornado Cash. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002275580734255170

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    The Block (@TheBlock__)

    Tornado Cash users can now maintain anonymity without 'helping the hackers' by using new 0xbow blacklist https://www.theblock.co/post/374410/tornado-cash-users-maintain-anonymity-without-helping-hackers-0xbow-blacklist?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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    The Block (@TheBlock__)

    'Writing code without ill intent is not a crime,' says US DOJ official following Tornado Cash verdict https://www.theblock.co/post/367858/writing-code-without-ill-intent-is-not-a-crime-says-us-doj-official-following-tornado-cash-verdict?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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    Hamster Kombat (@hamster_kombat)

    ⚡️Hamster News | August 7⚡️ • Tornado Cash co-founder guilty on one count in federal crypto case • OpenAI eyes $500 billion valuation in potential employee share sale • Google commits $1 billion for AI training in US universities and more! 🚀 Watch every video closely to get clues that you can use later

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    CoinDesk (@CoinDesk)

    🗞️ President Trump is set to greenlight crypto in 401ks, prompting a Bitcoin price jump. 🗞️ Ripple acquires stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200M. 🗞️ Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm found guilty of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. @JennSanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." Thank you to @MidnightNtwrk 👋 for being a sponsor of the CoinDesk media network.

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