While blockchain monitoring has increased a great deal during the last few years, cryptocurrency mixers have seen significant use from those who don’t want their financial transactions tracked. Meanwhile, two mixing applications, Tornado.cash and Cashfusion, have helped crypto owners make their ethereum and bitcoin cash less traceable. The two applications combined recorded more than $8 billion in crypto transactions that have been purposely obfuscated.
Over $ 4.8 billion in Ethereum processed through Tornado.cash
The privacy of digital currency is an issue for many people. For some people this is not the case and they have no problem transacting on transparent ledgers monitored by blockchain watch companies. Privacy advocates, on the other hand, use a number of methods such as using a VPN, using the Tor browser, and accessing token mixers. As the end of 2021 approaches, the two crypto asset mixing apps Tornado.cash and Cashfusion have processed more than $ 8 billion in digital assets.
Tornado.cash is an ethereum (ETH) mixing tool that has seen approximately 2,344,835 ether worth more than $4.8 billion in deposits. The application is very popular and was even reviewed by former Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen in 2020. Tornado.cash has also recently announced it’s in the midst of deploying on the L2 (layer 2) Ethereum platform Arbitrum One. Out of the $4.87 billion deposited, Tornado.cash users paid $7.2 million in network fees, according to metrics from Dune Analytics.
The statistics further indicate that there were 12,240 unique depositors and 36,382 unique withdrawal addresses. The $ 4.8 billion in deposits were distributed by 98,593 unique deposits from the 12,240 addresses. The share of bridge withdrawals is around 70,800, while traditional wallet withdrawals are around 20,233.
More Than $3.8 Billion in Bitcoin Cash Fused Since November 2019
Another mixing project that has seen a few billion in coins mixed is the Cashfusion project leveraged by the bitcoin cash (BCH) community. The non-custodial mixing application that’s featured in the Electron Cash wallet has been a popular anonymity tool since November 28, 2019. Cashfusion offers significant transaction obfuscation and the project was reviewed by data analyst James Waugh in January 2020.
Waugh explained at the time that he combed through thousands of entering and exiting transactions and realized that it was “not possible to make a concrete connection” between them. To date, and since November 2019, 7,293,680 bitcoins cash worth 3.28 billion have been processed. There have been 6,931,976 entries and 7,102,213 exits to date and the BCH charge is negligible compared to Ethereum’s network charge at 169 satoshis for each BCH merged.
Both of these mixing applications are popular today and are used quite regularly. On Fridays, BCH fans participate in what’s called “Fusion Fridays,” in order to get a larger crowd fusing their coins together. With Tornado.cash supporting Arbitrum One, fees will be much smaller than the average onchain ETH fee. In addition to mixing applications dedicated to ethereum (ETH) and bitcoin cash (BCH), the non-custodial wallets Wasabi wallet and Samourai wallet also offer mixing features for bitcoin (BTC).
