PANews reported on April 29 that according to The Block, in view of the upcoming trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, crypto industry leaders jointly called on the White House to stop prosecuting open-source software developers. The DeFi Education Fund sent a letter to White House crypto affairs official David Sacks earlier this week, with leaders urging the Trump administration to change its approach and stop the Department of Justice's "overreach" in prosecuting software developers. The letter emphasized that developers cannot control how third parties use their code and should not be held criminally responsible. The joint letter noted that continuing to prosecute developers would make it difficult to achieve Trump's goal of making the US a global crypto center. The letter also mentioned that although the Department of Justice's recent memo stated it would no longer regulate the crypto industry through criminal charges, the Southern District of New York Court seems to not be following this principle.
This joint letter was supported by over 70 industry professionals, including Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang, The Block co-founder Mike Dudas, and Multicoin Capital's Chief Legal Counsel Greg Xethalis.
