Manta co-founder: Tornado Cash ban could spell disaster for other privacy protocols

[Manta co-founder: Tornado Cash ban may bring disaster to other privacy agreements] News on August 17, recently, Shumo Chu, co-founder of the privacy protection agreement Manta Network, said in an interview that the US government’s ban on Tornado Cash Tough sanctions could have knock-on effects on every Web3 protocol, including the Privacy Shield protocol. Tornado Cash (TORN) is an Ethereum (ETH) privacy protocol that anonymizes coin transactions. These protocols, similar to Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), shield the sender and receiver data of encrypted transactions.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Treasury Department banned U.S. residents from using the protocol, adding 44 ETH and USDC addresses associated with it to the list of Specially Designated Nationals on Aug. 5. (Cointelegraph)

Other news:

The MusicHub of the Decentraland block was sold at a price of 272,000 MANA: Jinse Finance reported that according to the latest data from Dapprader, the MusicHub of the Metaverse virtual world Decentraland block was sold at a price of 272,000 MANA, which is about 709,920 U.S. dollars. The transaction volume was traded in Decentraland Ranked 13th in the ranking. At the time of writing, Decentraland’s transaction volume reached $179.42 million with a total of 20,901 transactions. [2022/3/4 13:38:09]

EOSIO will carry out Mandel hard fork: add configurable WASM restrictions, contract payment, configurable blockchain parameters and other functions: On December 20, EOS network founder Daniel Larimer updated Medium to announce that EOSIO will carry out a hard fork of the EOSIO code base Fork, the new code is named Mandel. The first version of Mandel will be 3.0. While retaining the configurable WASM limit function in EOSIO 2.1, it will introduce functions such as contract payment and enhanced configurable blockchain parameters. In addition, Clairionos will also release a Mandel 2.3 version derived from EOSIO 2.1 to help nodes that upgrade to EOSIO 2.1 more easily keep in sync with the network.

The specific implementation timeline disclosed in the article is as follows:

January 31, 2022: release of Mandel 3.0 release candidate;

February 2022: Launch Mandel 3.0 test network;

March 1, 2022: The final version of Mandel 3.0 will be launched;

March 2, 2022: Deploy the contract payment system;

April 1, 2022: Release Mandel 2.3;

April 9, 2022: EddenOS election;

May 19, 2022: Hard fork initiated.

BM said: This fork is the first time that the EOS network runs a software version not developed by Block.one, and it is an important symbol of the independence of the EOS ecosystem from Block.one. [2021/12/20 7:50:47]

"Time Magazine" President Keith Grossman announced the claim of the ApeAvatar avatar: On October 18, "Time Magazine" President Keith Grossman announced his participation in the ApeAvatar charity claim event, and claimed the exclusive "ApeAvatar" NFT avatar, and the APENFT Foundation will donate to New York's largest NewYork Cares donated $5,000.

It is reported that the ApeAvatar charity claim event was jointly organized by the APENFT Foundation, Binance NFT platform, and Binance Charity Foundation. A total of 50 exclusive NFT avatars of cryptocurrency-related celebrities were launched, including Musk, Zhao Changpeng, Wu Jihan, and Mark Cuban. , Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, etc. And for each guest who confirms to claim their NFT avatar, the APENFT Foundation will donate 5,000 US dollars to the outside world, and the donation will be used to combat global climate change. [2021/10/18 20:36:55]