The retrial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has been postponed until 26 April 2027, while a judge considers his request to overturn his conviction and dismiss the remaining charges.
US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ordered on Tuesday that proceedings will resume at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse in New York. A final pre-trial conference has been scheduled for 20 April 2027.
Storm was convicted in August 2025 of one count of money transmitting after a jury found that he had facilitated the operation of the cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash. The jury was unable to reach verdicts on two further allegations linked to money laundering and sanctions evasion.
Tornado Cash allows users to obscure the origins of cryptocurrency transactions by pooling funds and making it harder to trace where they came from. Prosecutors accused Storm of helping facilitate the laundering of more than $1bn in illicit funds.
The US government has asked for a retrial on the two charges that remained unresolved. It had previously sought to bring Storm back to court in October 2026, but the new order moves that hearing to April 2027.
If convicted on both outstanding charges, Storm could face a maximum sentence of 40 years.
Storm submitted a motion for acquittal in September 2025, asking the court to dismiss the case against him. An oral argument on the motion took place in April, but Judge Failla has not yet issued a decision.
His lawyers also referred in an April court filing to a recent US Supreme Court ruling involving internet service provider Cox and a copyright dispute. The Supreme Court ruled that Cox should not be held liable simply for providing a service that some of its customers later used for music piracy.
Storm’s legal team said that decision could have implications for their client’s case, arguing that it may help define the extent to which a service provider can be held responsible for the actions of users.
Storm addressed the delay and the wider prosecution in a post on X on Tuesday.
“Prosecutors are supposed to protect American interests and go after people who broke the law,” StormwroteTuesday in a post on X. “A jury deadlocked on the two most serious counts against me. And still SDNY won’t stop, because this case was never just about me. It’s about setting an example.”
He also cited the previous involvement of blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, which helped the government develop its case, in an effort to highlight what he described as unequal treatment.
Court documents indicated that Chainalysis operated as a relayer for Tornado Cash in 2022 and earned fees from doing so. Relayers are third-party services that assist users in withdrawing funds from a crypto mixer while helping keep their wallet addresses private.
“So the company that helped trace my ‘criminal’ transactions was itself profiting from Tornado Cash transactions, while I was prosecuted over software I helped create,” said Storm.
Chainalysis declined The Block’s request for comment on Storm’s case.
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