Uniswap has blocked 253 addresses at the front-end level that were associated with illegal transactions and activity on sanctioned mixing platform Tornado Cash.
uniswap has provided an unusual level of transparency re their frontend censoring via trm labs.
they have even shared the logs from their server.
https://t.co/2JBImqfBUii’ve saved and analyzed them. pic.twitter.com/tmSfAmUdFj
— banteg (@bantg) August 19, 2022
The list of addresses was moderated for four months with the participation of the analytical firm TRM Labs. In a press release, Uniswap Labs disclosed data on such blocking for the first time.
According to developer Jordan Frankfurt, initially even addresses that were only indirectly related to the objects of sanctions were blocked. The exchange soon narrowed down the selection. At the moment, the main criterion for blocking is the presence of an address in the sanctions lists, as well as a direct connection with the activities of intruders.
TRM Labs checks and classifies suspicious addresses into several categories. The main ones are:
- stolen funds;
- related to the Tornado Cash mixer;
- sanctioned addresses;
- related to scam projects;
- involved by well-known hacker groups;
- used to finance terrorism;
- involved in the distribution of child pornography.
The Banteg developer counted 30 addresses in the list in the format ENS. He suggested that most of them belong to ordinary users who are not involved in illegal activities.
Recall that addresses associated with Tornado Cash are blocked by other exchanges.
