So is this a paid service/wallet?
The wallet is free to use, coinjoining costs a 0.3% service fee in some cases.
How conveniently you appeared right after the ban on mixers, 🤔
Wasabi didn't just appear, it's been around since 2018, and was a winner of Bitcointalk's coinjoin development bounty:
Congratulations to the Wasabi and JoinMarket developers! JoinMarket pioneered a lot of CoinJoin science (and BTW, belcher wrote an excellent & comprehensive wiki article on privacy), while Wasabi is the first wallet that implements CoinJoin in both a highly-usable and sound way. As both a signer and a donor to the CoinJoin bounty fund, I'm thrilled that these two pieces of software exist!
For everyone looking to improve their privacy, I highly recommend checking out Wasabi, especially over centralized "mixers".
please note that I'm all for catching the criminals, but since there are some accusations against you, and the timing of your appearance, I say this is a honeypot obviously, but after reading the post about the accusation, it seems you guys helped to catch scammers and hackers. Which I would say works in your favour, but not if the goal was to catch more scammers and criminals for a long time.
This should be an indication that open source world is a dangerous place for both criminals and law enforcements equally, that's what I love about such a world. 😉
The accusations are completely false, there has never been any help provided to catch scammers or hackers. No such help is possible because your data is never shared with Wasabi's developers or coinjoin coordinator. Period.