TORN soars 200% as Tornado.Cash’s governance token becomes tradable

TORN soars 200% as Tornado.Cash’s governance token becomes tradable

Apes rejoice as yet another token airdrop fattens their portfolios The decentralized finance (DeFi) “stimulus checks” keep coming as Tornado.Cash joins Uniswap, Badger DAO, StakeDAO, and others in “airdropping” a now-tradable TORN governance token to early protocol participants.Tornado Cash, which is an Ethereum “tumbling” service that obscures transactional history in order to preserve user privacy (as well as allow scammers and hackers a method to launder their funds), first announced the launch of a governance token in December. A snapshot for the airdrop was taken for Ethereum block....


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