# Is Tornado Cash still sanctioned in 2026?

> Source: https://fuckyc.org/q/is-tornado-cash-still-sanctioned/
> Last verified: 2026-05-12

**Short answer:** The contract addresses are off the OFAC SDN list as of March 2025 after the November 2024 Fifth Circuit ruling. Personal-name sanctions on individuals remain. Interaction by U.S. persons is still legally fraught.

OFAC sanctioned Tornado Cash contract addresses in August 2022. In November 2024, the Fifth Circuit (Van Loon v. Department of Treasury) ruled that immutable smart contracts are not 'property' within the meaning of IEEPA, partially defeating OFAC's sanction theory on appeal. In March 2025, OFAC removed the contract addresses from the SDN list, retaining personal-name sanctions against the developers and other specific individuals. The practical situation in 2026: the addresses themselves are no longer SDN-listed, but interacting with Tornado Cash as a U.S. person remains legally fraught because of bank-secrecy-act, money-transmission, and ongoing developer-prosecution exposure. The Tornado Cash case is the most significant 2020s legal test of whether decentralized code can be sanctioned the way property can. See /explainers/tornado-cash-sanctions-status/ for the full timeline.

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