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…
Several decentralized applications on the Ethereum network have implemented code changes to revoke access from “sanctioned” addresses. The currently identified protocols are Aave, Uniswap, Ren, Oasis, and balancer. Banteg from Yearn identified the GitHub repositories in question via a Tweet early Saturday morning. when defi apps started snitching on you, with links 2021-10-25 uniswap https://t.co/ym0wdNPJS62022-05-10…
MetaMask has blocked users from certain jurisdictions from accessing its services and interacting with Ethereum. Users from Venezuela and Iran have begun reporting problems with accessing their digital wallets earlier today, with hundreds of users saying none of their transactions sent through MetaMask were realized. First instances of bans were noticed on OpenSea, which reportedly…
In a document made public earlier this month the European Commission published a call-for-proposal for a European government controlled DNS resolver service. The reasoning behind the proposal is to protect the privacy of end-users and keep them secure by applying filtering functions to block malware, phishing and other cyber security threats. However, the proposal also…