Impact of Tornado Cash: a Builders Perspective

In this week’s episode, Anna and Martin Köppelmann, Co-Founder of Gnosis discuss the OFAC sanctions against Tornado Cash and the impact this has had on builders in the community. They specifically focus on how the Tornado action helped reveal centralizing forces in Ethereum as well as the need for decentralization.

Here are some additional links for this episode:

• Gnosis Linktree
• Gnosis Discord
• Episode 183: CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann
• Episode 65: Bridges, xDai and Burner Wallets with Igor & Austin
• Episode 243: Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and Chris Hager
• Lido
• Rocketpool
• All That Node

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Today’s episode is sponsored by Aleo.

Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

If you’re interested in building private applications then check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo. Visit leo-lang.org to start building.

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