News with the tag "roman storm"

The DeFi Education Fund, a prominent crypto lobbying group, has made an urgent appeal to the Trump administration, calling for immediate intervention in what it describes as the “lawless prosecution” of open-source software developers. In a letter addressed to White House crypto advisor David Sacks ...

A significant development is unfolding in the complex world of cryptocurrency regulation and privacy tools, specifically concerning the Tornado Cash case. A coalition of prominent crypto firms has taken a direct step, appealing to the White House to intervene in the criminal proceedings against Roma...

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is donating more than a million dollars to help Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev with his legal defense. The contribution follows the developer’s supervised release to prepare to appeal his money laundering conviction in the Netherlands. Ethereum Foundation Aids Ale...

Roman Storm, the co-founder of the controversial crypto mixing platform Tornado Cash, is pushing to have criminal charges dropped, citing a recent ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling, which found that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s OFAC overstepped its authority in sanc...

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has petitioned a judge to drop the criminal charges against him after an appeals court found the Treasury unlawfully sanctioned the crypto mixer.

In an interesting development, the US courts have sentenced a crypto mixer operator from Ohio to jail. This development comes amidst active enforcement actions by US prosecutors on crypto mixers due to their reported role in aiding money laundering, hacks, and other illicit activities. Related Readi...

In the latest development in the ongoing prosecution of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, the presiding judge has adjourned the much-awaited trial until April 2025. This decision will see the money laundering and sanctions violations charges against the crypto developer drag on for at least the n...

Roman Storm, currently free on bail and facing three federal charges, will have another four months to prepare for his criminal trial.

Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s upcoming criminal trial has been pushed to April instead of a previously scheduled December start date, a New York judge ruled Friday.

Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin is donating 100 ETH to bolster the legal defense fund of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm. In a new thread on the social media platform X, Storm – who helped launch the anonymous ETH-based crypto mixing protocol in 2019 – expresses his gratitude to Buterin for h...