Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️

😔💔 I’m Roman Storm. I poured my soul into Tornado Cash—software that’s non-custodial, trustless, permissionless, immutable, unstoppable. In 31 days, I face trial. The DOJ wants to bury DeFi, saying I should’ve controlled it, added KYC, never built it. SDNY is trying to crush…

freeromanstorm.com Thank you everyone who is helping me. Ill never give up. I know that I am right and they are wrong.

The trial against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm started today in New York. A lot has changed since the indictment, especially in the last few weeks. Here’s everything you need to know. Storm is charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to violate…

We're donating 50 ETH from @GolemFoundation’s side. Who else is going to step up and contribute? We've always walked the walk when it comes to important causes. @OctantApp is the best example of that. Time for others in our industry to step up too.

Scoop: SDNY Misrepresented CoinDesk Reporter As Tornado Cash Developer In $600M Cash Out Message "Perhaps the indictment could have been clearer about the origin of the language," the Government states. Full story: therage.co/coindesk-torna…

Looks like the Government did a major oopsie in what can only be called one of the most incriminating pieces of evidence against Roman Storm. In the indictment, the Government alleges that "[Pertsev] sent a message to STORM and SEMENOV through the Encrypted App, saying 'Heya,…

You can read the full blog at the link below: defieducationfund.org/post/us-v-stor… Also be sure to check out this great interview from @CryptoAmerica_ 👇 x.com/CryptoAmerica_…

With @rstormsf's trial starting tomorrow, DEF put together a helpful backgrounder to get everyone up to speed. "Today, the target is Tornado Cash... tomorrow it could be the developers of a VPN, an encrypted messaging app, or a peer-to-peer file sharing tool."

🚨 Roman Storm’s trial starts in 1 day. He built open-source code. Now he faces 45 years in prison. This trial is about the future of freedom and Bitcoin. 🛡️ Contribute to his legal defense and help any way you can to support this critical cause. #FreeRomanStorm…

In today's status conference for the Tornado Cash case — the final one before trial begins — the judge made it clear that she plans to focus less on crypto mixing tech and more on what was in the developers' control. Here's my recap of the hearing: bitcoinmagazine.com/news/takeaways…

Jay Clayton, President Trump’s former SEC head who sued Ripple over XRP sales, is now top prosecutor at the DOJ office set to take Tornado Cash dev Roman Storm to trial on Monday. decrypt.co/329691/sec-cha…

In yesterday's pretrial conference, Judge Failla expressed skepticism that SDNY can establish venue over Tornado Cash. Full story: therage.co/sdny-venue-tor…

Dear Crypto Community & Privacy Advocates, This is an urgent call: My trial begins July 14, and we’re facing a critical shortfall. I need to raise $500K in the next few days and $1.5M within a couple of weeks to sustain our fight - covering escalating legal fees, expert…

BREAKING: Striking pretrial conference call today in US v. Storm, the Tornado Cash trial. It seems clear government prosecutors will characterize all efforts to market Tornado Cash to *any* user as part of a conspiracy to launder North Korean funds. folo @theragetech A 🧵:

Dear Software Community, 🚀🔒 It's Roman Storm here. As my trial begins on July 14, we're facing an unexpected hurdle: ⚠️ What started as a planned 2-week trial is now expected to last 3-4 weeks due to complex legal arguments and unforeseen witnesses and evidence. This means…

Some interesting developments in SDNY’s case against Roman Storm: 1/4

Roman Storm, one of the developers of crypto-anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, will stand trial in New York starting July 14. His supporters claim the freedom to develop software is under threat. wired.com/story/roman-st…

‘How Many Gajillion Expert Witnesses?': Tornado Cash Crypto Laundering Case Set to Kick Off law.com/2025/07/11/how…

Tornado Cash dev Roman Storm's trial starts Monday. Earlier this week, Coin Center won its case, and the court vacated the sanctions against Tornado Cash. Yet if found guilty, Roman faces 45 years in prison. #freeroman

Genuinely at a loss for words for how inappropriate the judge‘s comments in the latest hearing for Roman Storm have been. Presuming that the Government would argue that Tornado Cash is „predominantly used by bad actors,“ Failla stated that she and her law clerk had been making…

Having a really fun space right now, talking @rstormsf, AI and all things Giveth!