What Are the Legal Implications of Tornado Cash Sanctions?

Plus: Is the government against privacy?

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Today's premium content features a behind-the-scenes interview with Alessio Evangelista, partner at Skadden, on the Tornado Cash sanctions.

In this discussion, Alessio talks about financial regulation, what happens after the Merge, and much more. Here are a few of the topics we covered:

• Alessio's background as a prosecutor and how he got into crypto

• whether it was a logical step for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to sanction Tornado Cash

• whether TC imposed a risk to the financial system

• how the worlds of DeFi and traditional finance regulation are colliding

• whether the US Treasury realizes that Tornado Cash is a decentralized platform

• Alessio's take on the "writing code is free speech" argument

• how to establish someone's commercial relationship with a decentralized application

• how Alessio believes the reaction of companies like Circle was a prudent move given the uncertainty

• whether the people involved in the Tornado Cash DAO are at risk

• the implications of the Merge and the risks of being a validator

• whether the government is taking action against privacy technologies

• where things are going regarding regulation, according to Alessio