Blockchain and digital assets sit at the intersection of securities law, money transmission rules, and contract enforceability, and the answers shift fast. Our attorneys came up as software engineers, so we read your protocol and your token mechanics as closely as your term sheet, then tell you where the legal risk actually lives and how to design around it.
Token Offerings And Securities
Whether your token is a security is the question that shapes everything else. We work through the Howey analysis for your specific facts, structure offerings under available exemptions, and prepare the disclosures and documentation a token sale requires. When the structure is genuinely uncertain, we tell you that plainly and lay out the trade-offs so you can decide how much regulatory risk your roadmap can carry.
Exchanges And Money Transmission
Crypto exchanges and custodial platforms face a patchwork of federal and state requirements, from FinCEN registration to state money transmitter licensing. We map which rules apply to your model, build the licensing and compliance program to match, and draft the customer terms and AML procedures regulators expect. The goal is a platform that can operate and scale without an enforcement surprise.
Smart Contract Enforceability
A smart contract executes code, but it still has to hold up as a legal agreement. We advise on how on-chain logic maps to enforceable obligations, where you need traditional contract language to back the code, and how to handle bugs, oracle failures, and disputes before they happen. Because we read the contract code ourselves, the legal terms and the technical behavior actually line up.
Enterprise Blockchain Deployments
Companies adding blockchain to supply chains, payments, or recordkeeping inherit a stack of IP, data, and commercial questions. We sort out who owns the protocol and the code, how on-chain data interacts with privacy obligations, and how to allocate risk among consortium members and vendors. You get implementation agreements and governance terms built for a system where transactions cannot simply be reversed.