Vitalik Buterin Donates 30 ETH To Tornado Cash Developers

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Vitalik Buterin has donated 30 ETH worth $111,000 to a legal defense fund for Tornado cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm via Juicebox. The fund has so far raised 591 ETH to legally support the developers of Ethereum-based crypto mixer Tornado Cash, who face money laundering charges. Alexey was sentenced to 64 months in prison this month for his role in processing $1.2 billion through the mixer from July 2019 to August 2022 over money laundering. Roman Storm remains detained in the U.S. since his arrest in 2023.