Tornado Cash DAO Website Offline: What Happened and Why?

Reports indicate the Tornado Cash DAO website is now offline. This development follows a turbulent period for the decentralized privacy tool, marked by US Treasury sanctions and the arrest of a suspected developer.

According to social media reports, the Tornado Cash DAO was offline reportedly following a discussion in which community members voted unanimously to add its governance. Tornado Cash Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) went offline after reports from various social media platforms and users reported the community discussing Tornado Cash DAO’s website has gone offline since the arrest.

The catalyst for these events was the US Treasury Department's sanctioning of Tornado Cash. 5 de sept. de 2025 As a result of the Treasury sanctions, the tornado.cash[19] website is offline (it is listed in the SDN[20]) and Github shut down the repo containing the original source code. This action effectively made the official website inaccessible.

Further contributing to the platform's apparent demise, Tornado Cash appears to no longer be operational. According to social media reports, this is also true for the platform’s Discord server. The combined effect of these factors suggests a significant disruption to Tornado Cash's operations.

Adding to the complexity, Dutch police arrested suspected Tornado Cash developer on Wednesday, 10 August. According to The Block, the software developer's arrest further intensified scrutiny and uncertainty surrounding the project.

The shutdown of the Tornado Cash DAO website represents a significant blow to the project and raises important questions about the future of decentralized privacy tools in the face of regulatory pressure.