Developer Roman Storm’s legal team moved to dismiss his U.S. criminal case stemming from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions on Tornado Cash after courts found the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lacked authority to sanction Tornado Cash smart contracts, and the agency later delisted those contracts in March 2025.

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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.
The Tornado Cash developer’s lawyers requested the case be dropped in December after a judge ruled that the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control exceeded its authority in sanctioning the mixer’s smart contracts.