The Lobby Crypto group, the DEFI education fund, asked the Trump administration to end what it claimed to be the “lawless law” of open source software developers, notably Roman Storm, a creator of the Crypto Mixing Service Tornado Cash.
In a letter of April 28 at the White House crypto, the Tsar David Sacks, the group urged President Donald Trump “to take immediate measures to interrupt the campaign without law from the Biden era to criminalize the development of open source software.”
The letter specifically mentioned the accusation of Storm, which was charged in August 2023 to have helped to whiten more than a billion dollars in crypto through Tornado Cash. His trial is still scheduled for July, and his colleague co-founder accused, novel Semenov, is generally and would be in Russia.
The DEFI Education Fund said that in the case of Storm, the Ministry of Justice is trying to hold the developers of software criminally responsible for the way others use their code, which is “not only absurd in principle, but it establishes a precedent which potentially retains any cryptographic development in the United States”.
The group also called for recognition that the accusation contradicts the directives of the Network Financial Network of the Treasury Department (Fincen) of the first mandate of Trump, which established that the developers of auto-affectodial protocols, the Peer-to-Peer protocols are not money issuers.
“This type of legal environment is not content to cool innovation – it freezes it,” they said. The letter added that it “also allows politically motivated application and puts each open-source developer in danger, whatever the industry”.
In January, a Federal Tribunal of Texas judged that the treasure had exceeded its authority by sanctioning the Tornadians in cash.
The issues could not be higher
The group thanked Trump for its support for industry and its declared objective of making America the “cryptographic capital of the planet”.
However, they have added that its objective cannot be achieved if the developers are pursued to build tools that allow technology.
“We ask President Trump to protect American software developers, restore legal clarity and put an end to this illegal surcharging doj. The work is not finished, and the issues could not be higher.”
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The legal director of the variant fund, Jake Cervinsky, said that the Ministry of Justice’s file against Storm is “an exceeded vestige of the Biden administration war”.
“There is no justification in the right or the policy to continue software developers for the launch of non-guardian intelligent contract protocols,” he added.
At the time of writing the editorial staff, the petition had attracted 232 signatures of industry leaders and developers, including the co-founder of Coinbase Fred Ehrsam, the co-founder of Paradigme Matt Huang and the basic developer of Ethereum Tim Beiko, among others.
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