{"id":61101,"date":"2022-05-06T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61101"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:09:24","slug":"blender-io-mixer-sanctioned-by-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/blender-io-mixer-sanctioned-by-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender.io mixer sanctioned by the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/policy-issues\/financial-sanctions\/recent-actions\/20220506\">placed Blender.io, a cryptocurrency mixer, and related Bitcoin- and Ethereum-addresses on the sanctions list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> says the service helped launder funds stolen by North Korean hackers and was allegedly involved in ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also noted Blender.io&#8217;s link to the March <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/ethereum-sajdchejn-ronin-podvergsya-hakerskoj-atake-zloumyshlennik-vyvel-kriptoaktivy-na-625-mln\/\">Ronin Ethereum sidechain hack<\/a> in the game Axie Infinity, in which Lazarus hackers stole crypto assets worth $625 million. About $20.5 million of this amount passed through the mixer, OFAC said.<\/p>\n<p>Since its creation in 2017 Blender.io has processed more than $500 million in Bitcoin transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions list includes 46 Bitcoin wallets directly belonging to Blender.io, and 12 Ethereum addresses associated with the Lazarus hacking group. This marks the first time a cryptocurrency mixer has been added to the sanctions list.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the US Treasury imposed sanctions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/gruppa-majningovyh-kompaniij-bitriver-popala-pod-sanktsii-ssha\/\">BitRiver group<\/a>, which operates cryptocurrency mining in Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/hydra-i-bitkoin-birzha-garantex-popali-pod-sanktsii-ssha\/\">the Hydra darknet marketplace and the Garantex cryptocurrency exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury added Blender.io, a cryptocurrency mixer, and related Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses to the sanctions list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1125,1256,1359,686,26],"class_list":["post-61101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-lazarus","tag-privacy-and-personal-data","tag-ronin","tag-sanctions","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61103,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61101\/revisions\/61103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}