Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm's retrial delayed to April 2027

The retrial for Roman Storm, a developer associated with the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, has been rescheduled to April 26, 2027. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla granted the postponement, citing Storm's pending motion for acquittal and his subsequent request for a continuance. Storm's legal team argued they would require at least 90 days after a ruling on the acquittal motion to prepare for a new trial, a request prosecutors opposed.

Storm was convicted in August 2025 on one charge of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business, an offense that carries a potential five-year prison sentence. However, the jury was unable to reach unanimous verdicts on two other charges: conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions. Storm has since filed a motion seeking acquittal on all charges, asserting that prosecutors failed to demonstrate his intent to facilitate criminal misuse of Tornado Cash.

Storm has argued that his prosecution is an attempt to "set an example" for the wider cryptocurrency industry, citing comments from a prosecutor at the Southern District of New York. He also highlighted that blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis was running its own Tornado Cash relayer and earning fees, but this information was not presented to the jury after the firm's witness pleaded the fifth. The case has drawn attention from privacy advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.