Electronic Frontier Foundation Shows Support for Waymaker Client Tornado Cash

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a prominent digital rights group based in San Francisco, has filed an amicus brief in support of our client Roman Storm, one of the developers of the crypto privacy protocol Tornado Cash. CoinDesk covered the news.

Storm, who is represented by Brian Klein, Keri Curtis Axel and Kevin Casey, has been charged in the SDNY with conspiracy to facilitate money laundering, to operate an unlicensed money transmitter, and to violate sanctions in relation to his work on the Tornado Cash protocol. His trial starts in April.

The EFF brief explains that the government’s prosecution raises larger civil liberties concerns that could chill the future development of privacy-enhancing technologies more broadly. The EFF also discusses how Roman’s prosecution threatens open-source innovation as “the core issue in the case of holding developers responsible for how their tools are more broadly.”