Tornado Cash Co-Founder Seeks Additional $1.5M to Cover Mounting Legal Fees

  • TL;DR Tornado Cash's Roman Storm needs $1.5M more for legal defense as his precedent-setting trial enters week three. The case could criminalize open-source development if creators are held liable for third-party misuse. Co-founder Alexey Pertsev was convicted in the Netherlands; Roman Semenov is wanted by the FBI.