Tornado.cash is a decentralized non-custodial privacy protocol on Ethereum that enables private transactions through a cryptocurrency mixing mechanism. Tornado.cash's Twitter Score is 190 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #2,936 (top 1%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Tornado.cash was co-founded by Roman Storm, Roman Semenov, and Alexey Pertsev, and is affiliated with the Tornado Cash DAO. The protocol operates on multiple blockchains beyond Ethereum, including BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Gnosis Chain, Avalanche, Optimism, and Arbitrum One.
Tornado.cash has been at the center of significant legal and regulatory action. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022, stating it had been used to launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currency. Those sanctions were lifted by the U.S. Treasury in March 2025, though the agency expressed ongoing concerns. Separately, the U.S. Department of Justice charged co-founders Roman Storm and Roman Semenov in August 2023 with conspiracy to commit money laundering, sanctions violations, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. In August 2025, Roman Storm was convicted of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business, with a partial mistrial declared on other charges.
Tornado.cash has 73,398 followers as of July 2026 on the platform and has published 340 posts since joining in 2019. The account has been mentioned by 923 accounts, with 2,338 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Tornado.cash include 672 founders, 186 angel investors, 394 influencers and 23 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Toly, Stani, Fred Ehrsam, Kyle Samani and Andrew Kang.