Tornado Cash dev Roman Storm’s retrial delayed to April 2027

The extended timeline pushes a pivotal legal question — whether software developers can be held liable for third-party misuse of neutral code — further into the future. This prolongs uncertainty not just for Storm, but for the broader privacy-tooling sector, where legal precedent is still being shaped. The key dynamic to watch is how the pending acquittal motion frames the distinction between writing code and facilitating crime, as that reasoning could influence future cases regardless of the trial's eventual outcome.