New exhibits suggest that the prosecution may have misrepresented Storm's state of mind. Two witnesses from the blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis are meant to testify to running a Tornado Cash relayer.

This article was updated to reflect that a Chainalysis witness may plead the 5th after a phone call with the Government.

Last week, the prosecution attempted to paint a picture of Roman Storm as having deliberately built Tornado Cash to serve criminals. We saw testimony from Philip Werlau of Anchain AI, who suggested that Tornado Cash could have retained user's private keys to help stop illicit activity – a proposal about as sensible as suggesting to build Signal without end-to-end encryption –, convicted criminals taking the stand to testify to their use of Tornado Cash in hope for a lesser sentence, endless emails sent to the Tornado Cash team with requests to help recover funds aimed at painting Storm's inability to return criminal proceeds as deliberate and intentional, and sporadic mention of North Korea's Lazarus group, intended to prove that Storm was aware that the DPRK's funds flowed through his protocol – and chose to do nothing about it.

But defense's motion filed last night paint a drastically different picture.

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