TORN is an ERC20-compatible token with a fixed supply that governs [Tornado.Cash](https://tornado.cash/). TORN holders can make proposals and vote to change the protocol via governance.
**TORN is not a fundraising device or investment opportunity. It will remain non-transferable until the community decides that unlocking transfers via a governance vote, not earlier than 45 days following deployment, would comply with all applicable laws.**
**Here’s how the initial distribution of TORN would break down:**
Users who have believed in [Tornado.Cash](https://tornado.cash/) from early on should have a say in governing the protocol. For this reason, early adopters of the protocol did receive an airdrop of TORN.
TORN has been airdropped to [all addresses](https://github.com/tornadocash/airdrop/blob/master/airdrop.csv) that made deposits into [Tornado.Cash](https://tornado.cash/) ETH pools before block `11400000`. TORN were airdropped in the form of a non-transferable TORN voucher \(vTORN\) that can be redeemed 1:1 to TORN within 1 year, from December 18, 2020, to December 18, 2021. TORN that aren’t redeemed will be swept into the governance contract after 1 year and become part of the DAO Treasury. Redeemed TORN will be available immediately.
The airdropped amount depends on users’ deposit size and age — larger deposits and older deposits will receive more TORN. Multipliers for deposit size are logarithmic:
So a 100 ETH deposit get twice as many tokens as a 1 ETH deposit. The multiplier allows large and small users of [Tornado.Cash](https://tornado.cash/) to both have a say in governance.
