{"id":675010,"date":"2025-06-13T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ethereum-foundation-pledges-500k-to-roman-storms-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:35:15","slug":"ethereum-foundation-pledges-500k-to-roman-storms-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ethereum-foundation-pledges-500k-to-roman-storms-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Foundation pledges $500K to Roman Storm\u2019s defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDYvMDE5NzZhOGYtZjI3Yi03NzcxLTkyMzktNWYwNTg3YzBmOTMz.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Roughly two years after the initial indictment, the Tornado Cash developer\u2019s criminal trial is expected to begin on July 14.<\/p>\n<p><p>The Ethereum Foundation said it will be donating $500,000 to the legal defense of Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm, who faces charges related to allegations he conspired to run the crypto mixing service as an unlicensed money transmitter.<\/p>\n<p>In a Friday X post, the foundation <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethereumfndn\/status\/1933564840112435567\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> it would contribute $500,000 to Storm\u2019s defense, as well as match up to an additional $750,000 in donations from the crypto community. <\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">The announcement came roughly a month before Storm is expected to stand trial in New York for money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter, and conspiracy to violate US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Ethereum Foundation said it will be donating $500,000 to the legal defense of Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm, who faces charges related to allegations he conspired to run the crypto mixing service&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-06\/01976a8f-f27b-7771-9239-5f0587c0f933","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15047,74932,74891,147026,117,71433,55229],"class_list":["post-675010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy","tag-crimes","tag-ethereum","tag-tornado-cash","tag-business","tag-court","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}