Tag: Tornado

The DeFi Education Fund has called on former President Donald Trump to intervene in what it decries as a “lawless campaign” by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against open-source software developers, singling out the prosecution of Roman Storm, co-founder of the crypto privacy tool Tornado Cash. In a letter addressed ...

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a Treasury Department decision to sanction Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts, declaring them beyond the scope of federal property laws.  In a ruling issued on November 26, the court determined that autonomous smart contracts, which operate without human intervention, cannot be ...