PANews reported on August 8th that Hsiao-Wei Wang, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, announced in a post on X that the foundation will donate an additional $500,000 to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm. Wang emphasized: "Privacy is the norm, and writing code is not a crime."

Earlier yesterday , Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm was convicted of unlicensed money transmission, but the jury was unanimous on the money laundering and sanctions charges.