Back to collectionTornado Cash Sanctions Shift the Studio’s Risk Discussion
The studio was still drafting a game-centered roadmap, with chain-related ideas at an exploratory stage. The US Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash. “No involvement” answered the studio’s immediate question about its own exposure, but it did not settle responsibility for future technical choices.
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The studio was still drafting a game-centered roadmap, with chain-related ideas at an exploratory stage. A wallet security alert days earlier had already unsettled the community. Now a policy change outside the studio brought the boundary between code and services into focus.
The US Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash. In this fictional timeline, open-source code appeared on a sanctions list for the first time. The industry argued over whether code was speech or a tool, while protocols blocked associated addresses overnight. The studio’s legal team reviewed its possible compliance exposure item by item and concluded: “No involvement.” Hearing that, A-Zhen asked who would explain dependencies and restrictions if the studio later chose new infrastructure.
“No involvement” answered the studio’s immediate question about its own exposure, but it did not settle responsibility for future technical choices. The roadmap appendix remained exploratory, and A-Zhen planned to bring dependencies into the internal discussion. Community members also needed to distinguish among a security warning, a service blocking an address, and a legal assessment.