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Foresight News reported that Roman Storm, the co developer of the decentralized privacy protocol Tornado Cash, was officially tried in Manhattan Federal Court on July 15th, and the case is expected to last for four weeks, according to The Block. The prosecutor accused him of conspiring to launder money, violating US sanctions, and operating an unlicensed fund transfer business. If all three charges are found guilty, he could be sentenced to up to 45 years in prison. The prosecutor claimed that Storm and co-founder Roman Semenov assisted cybercrime groups, including the North Korean Lazarus Group, in laundering over $1 billion through the Tornado Cash mixing tool, and cited the case of developer Alexey Pertsev, who was previously convicted of money laundering in the Netherlands, as a reference. The defense denies the allegations and questions key evidence submitted by the prosecution, including a Telegram message related to the Ronin Bridge hacking case that reads' cleaning up $600 million '. The defense lawyer claimed that the information actually came from a journalist and was forwarded by another developer, and Storm was not the author. Although the prosecution acknowledges that there were misleading label omissions in the initially submitted evidence, they still request the court to dismiss the motion to exclude evidence. The defense also opposes the prosecution's use of chat records, text messages, and images obtained through subpoenas from Apple, X (formerly Twitter), and investment firm Dragonfly as evidence, claiming them to be private communication content. But Judge Katherine Polk Failed has not yet accepted these defenses. Currently, over $1.9 million has been used to support Storm's legal defense, including $500000 donated by the Ethereum Foundation. Supporters believe that he is only writing open source code and does not directly control user behavior, and should be protected by freedom of speech. But the prosecutor emphasized that Tornado Cash's operation is similar to that of a company, and Storm has not taken any anti money laundering measures, ignoring multiple potential risk warnings.