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U.S. prosecutors want to retry Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm on two major charges where jurors previously deadlocked, even after Treasury acknowledged that crypto mixers can have lawful privacy uses on public blockchains.
That is the contradiction at the heart of this story.
Washington is now admitting privacy tools can have legitimate use cases for everyday users, businesses, and donations. But at the same time, the government is still pushing one of the highest-profile cases in crypto against a developer tied to that technology.
Storm’s proposed retrial is reportedly being targeted for October 2026 and would revisit the money laundering and sanctions conspiracy counts.
For crypto, this is bigger than one case. It is about whether privacy infrastructure will be treated as legitimate technology or permanent legal risk.
Read more: Crypto privacy may be gaining policy ground, but the courtroom battle is far from over.
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