Judge Katherine Polk Failla has adjourned Roman Storm’s retrial to April 26, 2027, in an order entered Tuesday.

Storm’s motion for acquittal, argued on April 9, remains unresolved. He was convicted in August 2025 of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, while the jury deadlocked on money laundering and sanctions violation charges.

The Tornado Cash developer will not face retrial on the two counts the jury could not decide until spring 2027, after Failla pushed the proceeding back by more than six months.

The order, entered in the Southern District of New York, sets the retrial for April 26, 2027, at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse and revises the pretrial schedule. Under the new timetable, expert disclosures are due February 5, 2027, and a final conference is set for April 20. Failla excluded the intervening period under the Speedy Trial Act.

In the order, Failla cited Storm’s pending acquittal motion and "his related request to continue the retrial to a date in late April 2027," noting that the later date came from the defense.

Federal prosecutors under U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton had asked in March for a retrial beginning October 5 or October 12 of this year. Storm’s lawyers said that request was premature while the acquittal motion remained pending.

A Manhattan jury convicted Storm in August 2025 of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and split on conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions. The two charges the government plans to retry carry a combined maximum sentence of 40 years, keeping the case central to how U.S. courts treat crypto software that is marketed as privacy-preserving and non-custodial.

“Setting an example”

Storm responded to the order on X, saying the case is aimed at the broader industry.

"A jury deadlocked on the two most serious counts against me. And still SDNY won't stop," he wrote. "It's about setting an example."

He also posted: "One thing before I start: everything in this post is public information from my own docket. None of it is new, and I'm not revealing anything you can't already find in the court filings yourself. The retrial just got pushed to April 26, 2027. The order came down today (Dkt.… — Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ (@rstormsf) August 25, 2026"

Storm cited a February 2024 New York City Bar Association event, filed as an exhibit in his docket, where Tara La Morte, chief of SDNY’s Illicit Finance and Money Laundering Unit, said her office wanted the industry to take notice and pointed to the Tornado Cash prosecution as an example of bringing the sector into compliance.

In the same post, Storm said blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis "was running its OWN Tornado Cash relayer, and earning fees on the transactions flowing through it," pointing to trial transcripts as support. He added that after his lawyers subpoenaed Chainalysis to testify, "The jury never heard any of it" after the company’s witness invoked the Fifth Amendment.

Chainalysis declined to comment.

Developers and the law

Storm’s case has drawn attention from privacy advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Buterin, who backed Storm in January, described himself as "an active user of privacy tools, including those developed by Roman."

The case is one of several involving crypto privacy and mixing tools. Alexey Pertsev, who worked on Tornado Cash with Storm, was convicted of money laundering in the Netherlands in May 2024 and sentenced to 64 months. He was later released to electronic monitoring in February 2025 while appealing, and the Ethereum Foundation has pledged $1.25 million toward his defense.

In the U.S., Samourai Wallet co-founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill pleaded guilty to conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and were sentenced in November 2025 to five years and four years, respectively. U.S. President Donald Trump told Decrypt in December that he would take a look at a pardon for Rodriguez, who began serving his sentence days later.

Storm’s case also sits uneasily alongside the Justice Department’s own guidance. Days after his guilty verdict, Matthew Galeotti, then acting head of the department’s criminal division, said prosecutors would no longer approve charges under the statute Storm was convicted on when software is decentralized and non-custodial, a policy he said would apply going forward.

Storm has not yet been sentenced on the money transmitting count, which carries a maximum of five years.