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The sanctions designation of Tornado Cash was supposed to be a turning point in the fight against on-chain money laundering. In practice, it accelerated the diversification of obfuscation techniques rather than eliminating them. The mixer ecosystem of 2026 looks materially different from that of 2022, and compliance teams need an updated mental model. Criminals have adapted in four directions: decentralised alternatives, cross-chain bridges, privacy-preserving layer-2 protoco

The collapse of NFT trading volumes from their 2021 peak has produced the mistaken impression that NFTs are no longer a material AML concern. In reality, the typology has matured, diversified into gaming platforms and in-app economies, and continues to attract criminal proceeds at meaningful scale. Regulatory frameworks in most jurisdictions lag the sophistication of these laundering techniques. For compliance teams at financial institutions, platforms and regulators, the gap