Digital Assets & Blockchain Law
Legal counsel for businesses, founders, DAOs, and investors navigating the intersection of blockchain systems and traditional law.
Legal Guidance Grounded in How Blockchain Projects Actually Operate
Blockchain projects do not operate outside the conventional legal system. Businesses, founders, DAOs, and investors still face questions involving corporate structure, securities, governance, contracts, ownership, liability, and litigation.
Slade Law helps clients connect decentralized organizations, on-chain assets, and blockchain-based governance with the legal structures and protections needed to operate in the real world.
Comprehensive Legal Services for Decentralized Organizations
Wyoming DUNAs, DAO LLCs & DAO Structures
Counsel on forming and structuring Wyoming DUNAs, DAO LLCs, and other legal entities designed to support decentralized organizations.
DAO Governance, Authority & Treasury Control
Guidance on governance frameworks, voting rights, administrator authority, contract execution, treasury control, member responsibilities, and liability.
Blockchain Business Formation & Structuring
Legal structuring for blockchain companies, founders, protocols, and digital-asset ventures, including entity selection, ownership, and operational planning.
Tokenized Equity & On-Chain Ownership
Counsel on tokenized equity, on-chain ownership arrangements, governance rights, voting structures, and the relationship between digital ownership and traditional corporate rights.
Securities & Digital Asset Regulatory Matters
Advice on securities and regulatory considerations involving tokens, digital assets, investment structures, offerings, and related transactions.
DAO & Digital Asset Disputes
Representation in disputes involving DAOs, digital assets, governance rights, ownership, contracts, and other blockchain-related legal issues.
Service of Process & Enforcement
Counsel on service of process, jurisdiction, enforcement, and the procedural issues that arise when decentralized organizations are involved in litigation.
Digital Asset Estate & Succession Planning
Planning for cryptocurrency and other digital assets, including ownership, access, fiduciary authority, inheritance, and succession.
Wyoming Structures for U.S. & International Projects
Advice on using Wyoming legal structures for domestic and international blockchain projects, including organizations with distributed members, founders, and operations.
What To Expect
Practical Legal Analysis
Focused guidance on the legal issues that matter most, including structure, governance, authority, liability, contracts, and regulatory exposure.
Advice Built Around Your Structure
Counsel tailored to how your DAO, business, digital assets, or ownership arrangements actually operate, rather than generic blockchain assumptions.
Clear, Actionable Next Steps
Practical recommendations designed to help clients understand their options, address legal risk, and move forward with greater clarity.
Focused Experience in Wyoming DAO Law
Slade Law's Wyoming DAO practice combines hands-on formation experience, specialized legal drafting resources, and ongoing analysis of Wyoming's DAO statutes.
Client Representation
Formed Wyoming DAO LLCs and drafted operating agreements, including for entities with multiple classes of membership interests.
Specialized Legal Forms
Developed eleven Wyoming DAO LLC operating-agreement forms, with supporting exhibits addressing capital structure, securities subscription, IP assignment, treasury and key management, distribution waterfalls, tax treatment, smart-contract specifications and governance, and vesting.
Document Automation
Developed an attorney-guided document-assembly system that deterministically generates DAO operating agreements from structured inputs and checks the resulting documents against an automated verification suite.
Legal Research and Analysis
Published analyses of Wyoming DAO LLCs and DUNAs addressing liability protection, treasury control, contract authority, tax classification, service of process, and other topics.
Digital Assets & Blockchain Insights
September 25, 2026
Estate Planning for Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets: Who Gets the Bitcoin—and Can They Access It?
Suppose someone dies owning $500,000 of Bitcoin. His will is perfectly clear: everything goes equally to his three children. There is no family dispute. Nobody questions the will. The children plainly inherit the estate. There is only one problem. Nobody knows how to access the Bitcoin. That scenario illustrates what makes cryptocurrency different from many other estate-planning assets. With Bitcoin, two questions that usually travel together can come apart: Who is legally entitled to the...
September 23, 2026
Who Can Sign Contracts for a Wyoming DUNA?
A DAO votes to hire a software-security firm. The proposal passes on-chain. The scope and budget are approved. The vendor sends over its services agreement. Then comes an unexpectedly ordinary question: Who signs it? A Wyoming DUNA can enter contracts in its own name. But being a token holder, voter, or member does not automatically give someone authority to bind it. Wyoming expressly says a member is not an agent of the DUNA solely because that person is a member. The practical solution is...
September 15, 2026
Why Would a Startup Put Its Equity On-Chain From Day One?
Imagine two people starting an ordinary software company. No cryptocurrency. No DeFi protocol. No plans to sell a speculative token. They expect to hire twenty people, give some of them equity, raise outside capital, and perhaps eventually have owners in several countries. Should they put the company's equity on a blockchain from day one? A few years ago, the sensible answer for almost any ordinary startup would have been an emphatic "no." Today the answer is more interesting. Putting a...
Build a Stronger Legal Foundation for Your Blockchain Project
Whether you are forming a DAO, structuring a digital-asset business, addressing governance or regulatory issues, or preparing for a dispute, Slade Law provides practical counsel designed to connect your on-chain activity with the legal system around it.
