Roman Storm characterized Tornado Cash as a symbol of financial freedom and warned that “If I lose, DeFi dies with me”

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Storm holds that he developed Tornado Cash to provide financial privacy and not for crime.

I poured my soul into Tornado Cash — software that's non-custodial, trustless, permissionless, immutable, unstoppable," Storm said in a separate X post on Friday. "If I lose, DeFi dies with me. The dream of financial freedom, the code I believed in — it all fades into darkness.