Tornado Cash founder nears $2M legal fund goal ahead of trial
Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm has already raised 88% of his $2 million legal defence fund before a US case against him goes to trial on July 14. Storm’s most recent call for legal backing was launched on May 30. It raised $722,000 by June 25, and has since raised a total of $1,753,000, leaving it just $247,000 away from its $2 million goal. The appeal raised almost 52% of the funds in the week following June 25. The Ethereum Foundation also promised to match $750,000 of the funding and appears to have contributed to the overall legal fund. Read more: Cork hacker sends ETH to Tornado Cash, donates to Roman Storm’s fund Storm’s fundraising efforts haven’t been without hiccups, however, with one $24,000 donation coming from the Cork Protocol hacker. They donated the sum after moving $3.4 million of stolen funds into Storm’s mixer. Storm quickly announced that he couldn’t accept the donation and that he’d return it to Cork Protocol. He also...