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​ Tornado Cash contributor reveals DAO shut down as it "can't fight the US", need to keep contributors safe

CryptoSlate spoke exclusively with a member of the Tornado Cash team who has been granted anonymity for their own protection and will be referred to as “TC Member” for the sake of this article. The Tornado Cash contributor told CryptoSlate’s Akiba that “multi-sigs shut down the DAO… we’re all out. Better safe than sorry, unless it all calms down a bit.”

Tornado Cash DAO multi-sig wallet deleted.
When asked about the TRM Labs API causing protocols such as Aave, Uniswap, and Balancer to sanction addresses linked with Tornado Cash, TC Member declared “there goes decentralization” in what they described as a “shitty situation.”

Following the closing of the Tornado Cash DAO, “DAO funds have been returned to Governance contracts, multisig deleted.” The removal of the DAO multi-sig indicates that this may be the end for Tornado Cash, as TC Member confirmed. While clarifying that this is only their opinion, TC Member reaffirmed that

“Multisgs shut down the DAO… Tornado Cash can’t fight the U.S.”

TC Member asserted that “nobody did anything wrong… [the] world is fucked up” about the incident. They confirmed that the DAO was shut down “to keep members safe and avoid legal issues” as the situation is “dangerous for all devs,” even those outside the Tornado Cash ecosystem.