DOJ Counters Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm’s Defense, Asserting Money Transmitting Operations

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has responded to the defense put forward by Roman Storm, a developer associated with the privacy-focused cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash. They assert that Storm’s services were, in fact, operating as unregistered money transmitting businesses.

Tornado Cash is a decentralized, non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer designed to provide private transactions on the Ethereum network. Roman Storm, one of the developers behind this service, has been charged with operating an illegal money transmitting service by the