Tornado Cash support: Ethereum Foundation pledges $1M to Storm’s defense, entities boost Pertsev appeal

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Ethereum Foundation provides $1M total support for Storm's defense while advocacy groups file amicus brief supporting Alexey Pertsev's appeal in Netherlands.

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Gino Matos

Publish date

June 13, 2025

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CryptoSlate

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https://cryptoslate.com/tornado-cash-support-ethereum-foundation-pledges-1m-to-storms-defense-entities-boost-pertsev-appeal

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Judges tried him on March 25 and 26, 2024, and sentenced him to 64 months for facilitating the laundering of roughly $1.2 billion on May 14. He left prison under electronic monitoring on February 7, 2025, while his appeal proceeds in s-Hertogenbosch.

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The Tornado Cash developer currently remains on $2 million bail in Washington state. Prosecutors arrested him on August 23, 2023, and charged him with conspiring to launder more than $1 billion in crypto, including funds moved by North Korea’s Lazarus Group.

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OFAC delisted Tornado Cash smart contract addresses on March 21 after an appeals court ruled the immutable code could not be sanctioned as property.

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