The developers of Tornado Cash Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev have received renewed support from the cryptographic community on their respective trials for the deployment of the open-source code behind the mixer.
The Ethereum Foundation on June 12 DO 500,000 $ in Tornado Cash Legal defense of the Roman Storm developer. He said it will correspond to an additional $ 750,000 of Public contributors While the case of American money laundering is approaching the trial.
Storm recognized The pledge minutes later on X, describing it as essential to “defend confidentiality and the right of code”. The new commitment follows a subsidy of $ 1.25 million from the venture capital company Paradigm earlier this year and provides total support for community studies for Stormto at around $ 3 million.
The Tornado Cash developer is currently under bail of $ 2 million in Washington. The prosecutors arrested him on August 23, 2023 and accused him of a conspiracy to whiten more than a billion dollars in crypto, including funds moved by the Lazare group in North Korea.
A federal judge kept the date of the jury of July 14, 2025 on the calendar.
The plea groups file a file for Pertsev
In the Netherlands, Coin Center and the DEFI Education Fund has filed an Amicus thesis Support the Tornado cash coder, the appeal by Alexe Vétsev of his conviction for money laundering. The file maintains that the unchanging intelligent contract code is a neutral tool and that responsible developers would cool open source innovation.
The case of PETSEV has already attracted a subsidy of $ 1.25 million from the Ethereum Foundation on February 26 which brought the same “confidentiality is normal, and writing code is not a crime” seen in the Storm funding campaign.
The Dutch agents arrested Perseev in Amsterdam on August 10, 2022, two days after the US Treasury sanctioned the torade.
The judges tried it on March 25 and 26, 2024 and sentenced it to 64 months to facilitate the laundering of around $ 1.2 billion on May 14. He left prison under electronic surveillance on February 7, 2025, while his call occurred in S-Hétogenbosch.
Ofac Intelligent contract addresses in Tornado Tornado On March 21, after a court of appeal ruled that the unchanging code could not be sanctioned as a property. The withdrawal Deputy token restrictions But did not end the parallel criminal affairs against developers.
