{"id":65834,"date":"2022-08-15T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65834"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:10:13","slug":"aave-blocks-justin-suns-wallet-amid-tornado-cash-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/aave-blocks-justin-suns-wallet-amid-tornado-cash-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Aave blocks Justin Sun&#8217;s wallet amid Tornado Cash sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DeFi protocol Aave blocked access to the wallet platform of Tron Foundation founder Justin Sun after he received 0.1 ETH from an anonymous Tornado Cash mixer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m officially blocked by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaveAave?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AaveAave<\/a> since someone sent 0.1 eth randomly from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TornadoCash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TornadoCash<\/a> to me. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StaniKulechov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StaniKulechov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tNXNLNYZha\">pic.twitter.com\/tNXNLNYZha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 H.E. Justin Sun\ud83c\udf1e\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde9 (@justinsuntron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/1558397647165091840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-the-ethereum-mixer\">being added<\/a> Tornado Cash to the sanctions list <span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> an unknown user of the service <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tornado-cash-user-disperses-ethereum-across-multiple-addresses\">sent 0.1 ETH to several prominent figures in the crypto industry.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Justin Sun, the recipients included Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, EthHub cofounder Anthony Sassano, crypto trader Loomdart, talk-show host Jimmy Fallon, YouTube blogger Logan Paul, and Randy Zuckerberg \u2014 sister of Meta&#8217;s CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The Aave team explained that the protocol integrates analytics tools from TRM Labs, and blocks are executed automatically. According to the developers, the issue has already been resolved.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/8 The TRM API risk parameters identify all wallets that have interacted with Tornado Cash contracts post-sanctions, even so-called \u201cdusted\u201d self-custodial wallets. These wallet holders may experience issues accessing the Aave IPFS frontend.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aave (@AaveAave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaveAave\/status\/1558537738625748993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier Circle <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/circle-freezes-usdc-on-tornado-cash-addresses-amid-u-s-sanctions\">added to the blacklist<\/a> USDC addresses of Tornado Cash wallets after the sanctions were imposed. Infrastructure platforms Infura and Alchemy restricted RPC requests to the service.<\/p>\n<p>The decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dydx-blocks-tornado-cash-user-accounts\">blocked<\/a> accounts of users who previously interacted with the mixer.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Dutch authorities arrested the alleged developer of Tornado Cash. According to media reports, the individual is the co-founder of the service, Alexey Pertsev.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeFi protocol Aave blocked access to the wallet platform of Tron Foundation founder Justin Sun after he received 0.1 ETH from an anonymous Tornado Cash mixer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65835,"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":[1212,1302,1314],"class_list":["post-65834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-aave","tag-justin-sun","tag-tornado-cash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65834","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=65834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65836,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65834\/revisions\/65836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}