Tornado Cash (TORN)

Judicial pressure on Roman Storm does not subside. American federal prosecutors refuse to drop the Tornado Cash case and, for now, close the door to a quick exit for its co-founder. The signal sent to the crypto market remains clear from the start. Even after a partially blocked trial in 2025, even after the change of tone displayed by the Department of Justice on certain digital asset cases, the federal camp continues to move forward.

Eleven audits, a brilliant architecture, but 128 million gone... The crypto-miracle Balancer falls hard. Who said code was better than a good old banker?

When justice sees red, Ethereum opens the checkbook: $500,000 to save a coder accused of laundering whiter than white... even without a machine.

A jury in Manhattan has found Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm guilty of operating an unlicensed money transmission business, while deadlocking on more serious charges of money laundering and sanctions violations tied to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus.

For a time, Tornado Cash was the ugly duckling of the blockchain. Accused of obscuring the trail of several billion dollars in dubious funds, the famous crypto mixer found itself on the U.S. Treasury's blacklist. But surprise on March 21: the axe fell... the other way around. The U.S. government simply lifted the sanctions against this protocol. A plot twist? Maybe. A signal of change? Definitely.

Once is not a habit, the French government once again shows its blatant distrust towards bitcoin.

The crypto universe remains a legal battleground where technology and law clash mercilessly. Alexey Pertsev, the emblematic figure of the Tornado Cash mixing protocol, has just reached a key milestone: released under electronic surveillance after eighteen months of detention, he is preparing his appeal. A mixed victory. For while the Dutch jails are opening slightly, the Russian developer remains chained to an electronic bracelet, a symbol of freedom under control. His case, much more than a simple judicial fact, embodies the burning tensions between decentralized innovation and legal responsibility.

A federal court in Texas has just overturned the sanctions imposed against the crypto mixing protocol, Tornado Cash. This decision marks a turning point in the regulation of privacy technologies and could redefine the authorities' approach to decentralized protocols.

A crypto developer sentenced to 5 years in prison for creating Tornado Cash and enabling the laundering of $1.2 billion!

Already criticized for its high level of centralization, Ethereum is disappointing many by censoring several transactions not validated by the OFAC.