Roman Storm is a crypto privacy developer who co-founded Tornado Cash, a crypto anonymizing protocol, and was found guilty by a New York jury in August 2025 of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. Roman Storm's Twitter Score is 276 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,396 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Roman Storm co-founded Tornado Cash alongside Roman Semenov and Alexey Pertsev as a crypto anonymizing tool developed in 2019. In August 2023, the DOJ indicted Storm on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, alleging that Tornado Cash facilitated more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions, including hundreds of millions of dollars attributed to the Lazarus Group. The DOJ noted that an indictment is an allegation and that defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Roman Storm was arrested on August 23, 2023, the same day the charges were filed. In August 2025, per WIRED, a New York jury found him guilty of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, not guilty of sanctions evasion, and failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the money laundering count. Separately, OFAC sanctioned Tornado Cash in 2022, citing its use to obfuscate hundreds of millions of dollars in virtual currency stolen by Lazarus Group hackers, before the U.S. Treasury exercised discretion to remove those economic sanctions on March 21, 2025. Tornado Cash operates a governance system through its $TORN token and a DAO structure.
Roman Storm has published 6,569 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 237 accounts a total of 457 times, reflecting sustained attention from the crypto community around his legal case and open-source privacy advocacy.
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