The person who operated the decentralized exchange based on solana raydium sent 2.7 million dollars in ethereum to now sanctioned currency mixture tornado protocol silver.
Transaction logs on Etherscan show that a wallet tagged as "Raydium Exploiter" sent a total of 42 tranches totaling 1,774.5 ETH to Tornado Cash on Thursday.
Raydium fell victim to the an exploit in December when an attacker took over owner authority of the exchange, the total loss was estimated to be over $2 million.
Tornado cash is a protocol that makes it possible for users to transfer coins anonymously without being traced. The U.S. Treasury Department put Tornado Cash on its sanctions list in November after alleging that North Korea was using the service to fund its its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program.
The promoter of Tornado Cash, Alexey Pertsev, a Russian resident in the Netherlands, was arrested in August for facilitating money laundering. He is set to stay in jail until at least Feb. 20.