On July 14, CoinDesk reported that the money laundering criminal case against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm will begin today in Manhattan. Prosecutors and defense attorneys will begin selecting a jury, and the trial is expected to last four weeks. Storm was arrested in Washington state in 2023 and faces three charges: conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. If convicted on all counts, he could face a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison. Prosecutors allege that Tornado Cash was used to launder more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds, including funds from the North Korean hacking group Lazarus Group. The defense argues that Storm is merely a developer of open-source decentralized software and should not be held responsible for others' misuse of the tool. [Deep Tide TechFlow]