Twister money has been ported to the newly launched MegaETH public testnet following the elimination of sanctions in opposition to the protocol.
The crypto privateness protocol Twister Money was ported to MegaETH testnet, as initially reported by The Block. Developer Gunboats named this new adaptation ETHTornado and stated it was simple to port with out altering the code.
“I thought, maybe someone should try to deploy [Tornado Cash] on the hottest thing right now…there is no change in code needed and that’s really a good thing,” stated developer Gunboats.
Gunboats determined to port the protocol after the U.S. Treasury eliminated sanctions from Twister Money, legalizing using the protocol for Americans. The stated sanctions have been imposed in August 2022, when the federal government accused Twister Money of facilitating cash laundering, together with transactions related to North Korea’s Lazarus Group.
Though the U.S. Treasury not sanctions Twister Money wallets, one consumer famous that some initiatives would possibly exclude these wallets from receiving airdrops.
Addressing authorized considerations surrounding this improvement, Gunboats downplayed potential dangers. He additionally expressed help for Twister Money co-founder Roman Storm, presently going through authorized challenges attributable to his involvement in Twister Money, stating, “Free Roman Storm.” Nevertheless, he acknowledged that ETHTornado has but to see vital utilization, citing the shortage of a user-friendly interface as a barrier.
The Ethereum (ETH) scaling answer MegaETH was launched on March 21, claiming the highlight for with the ability to deal with 20,000 transactions per second with 10 millisecond blocktimes.
Like conventional layer 2s, MegaETH strikes transaction processing off the Ethereum foremost community whereas nonetheless leveraging it for safety. MegaETH units itself aside by employs totally different information availability options, similar to EigenDA, and makes use of specialised sequencers to permit a number of transactions to be processed on the similar time.
Past the Twister Money port, buying and selling platforms GTE and Infinex are already working on the MegaETH testnet.
