Uniswap Labs has blocked 253 crypto wallet addresses for Alleged Crimes
Uniswap Labs has banned 253 crypto wallet addresses from its front end as part of its efforts to abide by US sanctions.

Uniswap Labs, its compliance provider TRM Labs has blocked 253 crypto wallet addresses in the last four months. aiming they connected to criminals and hackers activity with US government sanctions.
According to Software developer and DeFi platform Yearn core Banteg, 30 out of 253 blocked addresses approx 12% have an associated ens name. most are likely legitimate users that have fallen to TRM collateral damage
30 out of 253 of blocked addresses, or around 12%, have an associated ens name. most are likely legitimate users that have fallen to trm collateral damage. pic.twitter.com/TEfz2gKn5K
— banteg (@bantg) August 19, 2022
Earlier this month, prominent crypto users reported being blocked at least temporarily by web apps of giant DeFi protocols including Aave which claimed its API maintained by TRM had made incorrect calls to block honest addresses associated with drawing in with the now-endorsed Tornado Cash mixing service.
Uniswap collaboration with TRM Labs this year the banned addresses on app.uniswap.org are supposed to be split between seven categories featuring two risk levels high and severe.
there are seven categories which contribute to risk factors and two risk levels, high and severe.
— banteg (@bantg) August 19, 2022
both ownership and being a counterparty of a "bad" address are checked and can contribute to blocking. pic.twitter.com/ErGSdVlX1F
Some blocked addresses live an interesting life appearing on all lists which sounds like a very unlikely combination of criminal activities.
The decentralized exchange developer shared the logs of the 253 addresses from its server on Friday, in no time before making them private from those external to its platform.
Approx 11.8% of those wallets include a related Ethereum Name Service ID which is intended to make the extensive series of characters associated with blockchain addresses human readable.
The vast majority of the addresses are viewed as engaged with taken assets, or another criminal activity.
The Uniswap itself, running on Ethereum, is permanent and permissionless — meaning it can't be changed and is free for anybody to utilize through elective means. There are front ends not kept up with by Uniswap Labs and it's likewise conceivable to run a front end locally on any PC or to get to the Ethereum smart contracts straightforwardly.
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