地方法院裁决后，龙卷风现金正式避免美国制裁

财政部外国资产控制办公室（OFAC）3月从其制裁清单中删除了龙卷风现金

Tornado Cash is officially safe from U.S. sanctions, following a district court ruling on Monday.

在周一的地方法院裁决之后，龙卷风现金正式免受美国制裁的正式保护。

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) removed Tornado Cash from its sanctions list in March, several months after an appeals court ruled that the agency had “overstepped its Congressionally-defined authority” by sanctioning the crypto mixing service’s smart contracts back in 2022.

财政部的外国资产控制办公室（OFAC）在三月份从其制裁名单中删除了龙卷风现金，此前上诉法院裁定该机构在2022年裁定了Crypto Mixing Service的智能合约，该机构“超过了其国会定义的当局”。

However, the way that OFAC de-listed Tornado Cash, and the subsequent notices and motions its lawyers filed with the court in March, left apparent wiggle room for the agency to put the mixing service back on its no-fly list in the future, a federal judge said. The Treasury attorneys argued that, because OFAC had revoked sanctions against Tornado Cash before the district court’s final judgment (but after the appeals court’s decisive ruling), the issue was moot.

但是，OFAC撤销龙卷风现金的方式以及随后的律师在3月向法院提交的通知和动议，显然为该机构将混合服务置于未来的无灯光名单上留下了明显的摆动空间。财政律师辩称，由于OFAC在地方法院的最终判决之前（但在上诉法院的决定性裁决）之前撤销了对龙卷风现金的制裁，因此问题是没有问题的。

But, to the six plaintiffs in Van Loon vs. Treasury — all users of Tornado Cash — the issue was not, in fact, moot. In an April 21 filing, their lawyers blasted OFAC’s response to the Fifth Circuit’s ruling, calling it “a study in chaos” and accusing them of “wav[ing] the mootness flag” in a last-ditch effort to “evade an adverse judgment.”

但是，对于Van Loon与财政部的六个原告（所有龙卷风现金的用户）实际上并非没有说明问题。在4月21日的提交中，他们的律师抨击了OFAC对第五巡回法院的裁决的回应，称其为“混乱的研究”，并指责他们“ Wav Ing the Mootness Flag”，以“逃避不利的判断”。

“Enough is enough,” lawyers for the plaintiff told the judge. “It is time for this Court to do what the Fifth Circuit ordered months ago … Defendants’ designation must be held unlawful and set aside.”

“足够了，”原告律师告诉法官。 “现在是时候让该法院做几个月前的第五巡回法院下令……被告的指定必须是非法的并搁置了。”

In his sternly-worded ruling yesterday, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas said that the case was not moot, and sided with the plaintiffs, ruling that OFAC’s designation of Tornado Cash was unlawful and the agency is therefore permanently enjoined from enforcing sanctions against it.

美国德克萨斯州西部地区的美国地方法院法官罗伯特·皮特曼（Robert Pitman）在他的严厉言论裁决中说，此案并非没有意义，而与原告有关，裁定OFAC指定龙卷风现金是违法的，因此该机构是永久禁止对其执行制裁的。

“[OFAC does] not suggest they will not sanction Tornado Cash again, and they may seek to 'reenact precisely the same [designation] in the future,” Pitman wrote. “Rather than acknowledge that the Fifth Circuit’s order required delisting Tornado Cash, Defendants state that they exercised their 'discretion' in deciding to do so based on more general policy and legal considerations.”

皮特曼写道：“ [OFAC]并不建议他们不会再批准龙卷风现金，他们可能会寻求'将来的[指定]完全相同。” “与其承认第五巡回法院的命令需要将龙卷风现金推迟，不如说他们根据更一般的政策和法律考虑，在决定这样做时行使'酌处权'。”

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently pursuing criminal charges against two Tornado Cash developers, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, who were charged in 2023 with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter, and conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions. Semenov remains on OFAC’s sanctions list.

美国司法部（DOJ）目前正在针对两名龙卷风现金开发商罗马风暴和罗马·塞梅诺夫（Roman Semenov）提起刑事指控，他们于2023年被指控串谋进行洗钱，串谋经营无执照的货币发射机，并串谋违反美国制裁。 Semenov仍然处于OFAC的制裁清单上。

Earlier this month, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche sent DOJ staff a memo informing them of narrowing crypto-related enforcement priorities. Staff were instructed to no longer pursue cases against crypto exchanges, mixing services or offline wallets “for the acts of their end users or unwitting violations of regulations.” Blanche ordered any ongoing investigations that were not compliant with these new priorities to be dropped, and said that his office would work with the DOJ’s criminal division to decide how to proceed with any pending litigation that didn't meet the new enforcement standards.

本月初，美国副检察长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）向司法部寄来了一份备忘录，告知他们缩小与加密相关的执法优先事项。指示工作人员不再针对加密交易所，混合服务或离线钱包进行案件，以“最终用户的行为或不愿违反法规的行为”。布兰奇下令进行任何不符合这些新优先事项的调查，并表示他的办公室将与司法部的刑事部门合作，以决定如何进行任何不符合新执法标准的未决诉讼。

The memo has already made waves in ongoing crypto litigation. Prosecutors in the case against the two founders of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet filed a joint request with defense lawyers on Monday, asking the court for a 16-day extension in various deadlines as they decided whether or not to drop charges under the auspices of Blanche’s memo.

该备忘录已经在正在进行的加密诉讼中引起了海浪。针对加密货币混合器的两位创始人Samourai Wallet的检察官周一向辩方律师提出了联合请求，要求法院在各种截止日期的延期延长16天，因为他们决定是否根据Blanche Memo的主持人提出指控。

A host of prominent figures in the crypto industry also signed on to a letter from the DeFi Education Fund to White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks on Monday, urging U.S. President Donald Trump to intervene in the case to “discontinue the Biden-era Department of Justice’s lawless campaign to criminalize open-source software development” and the prosecution of Storm.

加密货币行业中的许多著名人物还签署了Defi教育基金会的一封信，并于周一致给白宫AI和Crypto Czar David Sacks，敦促美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）干预此案，以“终止了拜登 - 司法部司法部无律师事务所的无律师运动，以使犯罪的开放式软件开发刑事犯罪”，以及对风暴的提案。