Roman Storm asks DeFi devs: Can you be sure DOJ won't charge you?

Tornado Cash Founder Raises Red Flag Over DOJ’s DeFi Crackdown

Roman Storm, founder of the Tornado Cash privacy tool, has warned that open-source developers may face retroactive criminal risk from US prosecutors for building non-custodial finance software. Related Reading: Moscow’s $376-B Crypto Milestone Puts Russia Ahead Of Europe His message has echoed through the crypto community as his own legal fight moves forward. Reports have […]

Roman Storm warned that the US DOJ could prosecute DeFi developers

Roman Storm, founder of the Tornado Cash privacy protocol, raised concerns within the open-source software community about the risk of retroactive prosecution by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for developing decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Addressing DeFi developers, Storm asked, “How can you be certain that the DOJ will not charge you as a money service business for building a non-custodial protocol?”  With the growing uncertainties…

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Warns of Threat of Retroactive Prosecution

Roman Storm, a developer behind the decentralized privacy protocol Tornado Cash, has raised concerns within the open source community regarding potential retroactive prosecution by U.S. authorities. Storm questioned the certainty of avoiding charges under the premise that building non-custodial DeFi platforms might be considered illegal, sparking a debate over the legal risks faced by open-source crypto developers. This comes amid Storm’s recent…

Roman Storm asks DeFi devs: Can you be sure DOJ won't charge you?

Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm points out that open-source software developers in the United States are not safe from retroactive prosecution.