Federal prosecutors proposed a late 2026 retrial for Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, who was found guilty on one of three charges. A jury deadlocked on the remaining charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and violate sanctions, leading to the potential retrial.
Echo Protocol's Monad deployment suffered an exploit, allowing an attacker to mint $77 million in unauthorized eBTC. Approximately $816,000 was laundered through Tornado Cash. The issue stemmed from a compromised admin key, impacting only the Monad deployment.
Decentralized finance protocol Echo Protocol was exploited for approximately $76.7 million after an attacker minted 1,000 unauthorized eBTC on the Monad blockchain. The attacker still holds 955 eBTC, with investigations pointing to a compromised admin private key rather than a smart contract bug.
Roni Cohen-Pavon, former CRO of Celsius, sentenced to time served + 1 year supervised release for fraud/conspiracy. Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm may face retrial in SDNY for money laundering & sanctions violations.
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