Solana Policy Institute to Fund Legal Defense of Tornado Cash Developers

The Solana Policy Institute has pledged $500,000 to support the legal defense of Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, developers of the decentralized privacy service Tornado Cash. Both developers have been convicted for their roles in creating the service; Storm faces charges in the United States, while Pertsev is facing charges in the Netherlands. This commitment from the Solana Policy Institute comes as a significant development outside of the Ethereum ecosystem where Tornado Cash was initially developed.