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Tornado Cash, Blender, Sinbad — OFAC has designated crypto mixers since 2022. Why mixer addresses are on the wallet list, and what that means for agents.
OFAC started designating crypto mixers in 2022, and the actions are a direct precedent for agent compliance: interacting with a designated address — even through code — is prohibited.
Blender.io (May 2022): first mixer designation, linked to North Korean cyber operations.
Tornado Cash (August 2022): designated addresses including smart contracts — establishing that contract-level interaction is in scope.
Sinbad (November 2023): designated as a primary money-laundering concern supporting Lazarus Group.
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Mixer addresses are on the wallet list (the 947 includes them). An agent that routes a payment through or into a designated mixer address commits the same violation as a human. The screen catches it — if the screen runs before the payment.
Every designation follows the same compliance shape: the address lands on the list, and the next transaction to it is prohibited. Screening the destination wallet before sign — every time — is the only control that scales to autonomous agents.
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