Roman Storm, a developer of the Tornado Cash privacy-preserving protocol, asked the open source software community whether they are concerned with being retroactively prosecuted by the US Department of Justice for developing decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms.
Storm data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://x.com/rstormsf/status/1979567410018664812″ rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>asked DeFi developers: “How can you be so sure you won’t be charged by the DOJ as a money service business for building a non-custodial protocol?”
The DOJ could prosecute a case, arguing that any decentralized, non-custodial service should have been developed as a custodial…

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