Tornado Cash Resurgence: Developer Revives It on the MegaETH Testnet๐๐ฅ
๐น March 23, 2025 โ The crypto world is abuzz with developments! Gunboats, a renowned developer, has successfully ported the once-sanctioned privacy mixer Tornado Cash to the L2 testnet Mega$ETH , renaming it $ETH Tornado. This strategic move has ignited fervent debates across the community.
๐ฌ "I decided to deploy Tornado Cash in the most popular network today. No code changes were necessaryโit was actually quite simple," Gunboats told The Block.
๐ง Gunboats demonstrated the ease with which legacy protocols can be integrated into new L2 environments using the outdated Truffle framework. Today, developers can leverage Foundry and write everything in Solidity with minimal effort.
โ ๏ธ Community Concerns: Concerns regarding "dusting" attacks and blacklistingThe resurgence of Tornado Cash has revived concerns about "dusting," a tactic where malicious actors send small amounts of tokens to wallets to track activity or trigger security issues.Some speculate that Tornado-linked funds could be used to "taint" major $ addresses.
One user posed the question, "If most active traders are exposed to Tornado-linked funds, will blacklisting become obsolete?"While some platforms automatically block wallets associated with mixers, Gunboats has played down the perceived risk, saying that blacklist mechanisms already exist and will not change significantly.However, $ETH Tornado currently lacks a user-friendly interface, which limits its adoption.
In other news, Coinbase became the largest centralized Ethereum node operator in March 2025.What are your thoughts on the matter? Do you believe privacy tools will make a comeback, or is this just another controversy waiting to explode?Please share your insights in the comments below.