Texas court rules Tornado Cash cannot be sanctioned again

According to a report by CoinDesk from Foresight News, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has made a final ruling, determining that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)'s sanctions against Tornado Cash are illegal and permanently prohibiting future sanctions. Court documents show that although OFAC voluntarily removed Tornado Cash from the sanctions list in March 2024, it still retained the intention to potentially reimpose sanctions in the future. Currently, two Tornado Cash developers, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, still face criminal charges from the U.S. Department of Justice, with the latter remaining on the OFAC sanctions list. The ruling specifically targets the protocol itself and does not involve judicial proceedings against the developers.