I am the Head of Legal and Compliance at Arkham and managing partner of Byrne & Storm, P.C.
For nearly two decades, I have worked at the intersection of international regulation and emerging technologies, as a founder, attorney, think tank fellow, law professor, and executive.
In my free time I’m a Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute where, lately, my research interests have focused on free speech and related technology regulation. I am also on the Legal Advisory Council of the UK Free Speech Union.
I’ve taught cryptocurrency law at Fordham Law School in NYC and Antonin Scalia Law School at GMU in DC, although I’m currently taking a break from teaching to focus on work. Previously, I worked as a securitization lawyer in BigLaw in London, England.
Earlier in my career, I co-founded and was COO and general counsel of early enterprise blockchain startup, Monax Industries. Monax forked Ethereum proof-of-concept version 3 to build the first Ethereum DAO prototype and the first permissioned blockchain client, in both cases in 2014. The design later evolved into the Apache-licensed Hyperledger Burrow permissioned Ethereum blockchain node. Burrow was the Hyperledger Project’s first Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and was used by Intel and IBM’s contributions to that project, respectively named Sawtooth Lake and Fabric, to run EVMs on those codebases.
This here is my website and blog. I’m a pretty big fan of marmots, too, so don’t be surprised if you see one of those appearing in a blog post from time to time.
If you need to get hold of me, I can be reached via contact form or on LinkedIn.