They're finding new space because of Trump & republicans but their future isn't certain. If democrats win the next election we don't know how they'll handle crypto policies. America on it's own shouldn't decide the fate of mixers.
However, there should be a difference considered between a mixer and an autonomous, decentralized, privacy tool. Tornado Cash is not only a
mixer. This is software. The developers are not liable because a moneylaunderer used Tornado Cash. The government should chase the criminal very much similar to the government chasing the terrorists who used Nokia phones as bomb detonators. Nokia is not liable.
In any case, Paradigm's cofounder has proposed to stop the cases against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm. This is very good news.
Matt Huang didn’t necessarily ask the administration to consider a new policy so much as focus its attention on something it has deprioritized: the Department of Justice’s case against the American developer of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, according to a person who was briefed after the summit. The Department of Justice charged naturalized American citizen Roman Storm of money laundering, unlicensed money transmission, and sanctions violations for having created the tool, which effectively scrambles cryptocurrency transactions in order to provide privacy to its users. Huang said that the DOJ should reconsider the Biden-era suit.Read in full https://unchainedcrypto.com/5-ideas-pitched-at-the-white-house-crypto-summit-behind-closed-doors/