TREE NEWS update: Privacy Cash paused deposits after Elliptic traced about $1.2 million in theft-linked ETH and SOL into its pools. The team said withdrawals remain open. The move follows the Binance hack, with the traced funds tied to the incident.
Privacy Cash Halts Deposits After $1.2M in Hack-Linked Funds Traced to Pools
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The significance here is less the dollar figure than the precedent: a privacy pool freezing inflows on a compliance signal shows how quickly chain-analytics pressure can reach protocols built to resist it. That tension lands hardest on privacy-focused projects and their users, who now face a trade-off between open access and staying off tracing firms' radar. Keeping withdrawals open is the detail that matters for anyone already inside the pools. Whether other privacy tools follow with similar restrictions, and how Elliptic's tracing shapes that response, is the open question.
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