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Web3 Legal Contracts and Terms
We help projects achieve better outcomes for community members, developers, investors and nodes or miners by documenting protocol rules.
We prepare documents such as: Protocol terms of use, Community membership agreements, Developer contracts, Node or staking rules, Multisig custodianship agreements, Wiki pages and ‘how to’ guides, Open source or proprietary IP licence agreements.
Our team are highly familiar with distributed ledger technology and can work with you to create a ‘stacked’ contract, comprising code, formal legal and less formal explanatory or functional elements, all working together to enable your project to function faster, more securely and to work seamlessly alongside your decentralisation strategy.
Protocol-based projects can create particular challenges from a contractual perspective, in terms of understanding how contract law can apply in the context of automated, multiparty systems. Projects are often unclear on roles, responsibilities and accountability for decisions over important assets and project processes.
Strategy for Decentralisation and Community Governance
Many web3 projects aim to build decentralising features as part of their overall project design. Decentralisation can provide ownership and engagement for community members, and create stability and durability around automated features of your project. A decentralised approach can also support the overall vision for the project’s tokenomics and maintenance requirements.
There are a range of technical, practical, economic and legal factors that can hinder effective use of decentralisation, which if unaddressed can allow your project to leak value or present open vectors for governance attacks on your protocol. At worst, left unchecked, these features can cause unnecessary regulatory issues for your project team or can open up your project to hacks and scams.
Our team are experienced in every area of decentralisation. We can help you assess areas for improvement and support you in addressing any identified vulnerabilities - quickly and confidentially.
Crypto Regulatory Tracker
Regulation is an absolutely key challenge for all cryptoasset projects.
UK and EU regulations often affect token or coin issuance, management, trading activities, and marketing of the project.
Small differences in the project’s technology and operations can make a huge difference to regulatory outcomes. Our invite-only Crypto Regulatory Tracker helps your project keep up to date with important updates.
Data and Compliance Law for Web3
Data drives every Web3 project, with increasing synergies between distributed ledger technology and other advanced data technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, smart devices, augmented reality and advanced engineering projects.
Our team have an expert capability in helping projects to map and navigate data law challenges, building in best practices and where helpful, putting in place future checks and safeguards in areas broader than pure legal compliance, such as data ethics policies.
We help to achieve your goals compliantly, and to put in place sensible global frameworks to meet competing national requirements for data protection and compliance. We work fluently with your tech team to understand any particular hosting and data storage arrangements and go beyond the remit of a traditional law firm by working with you to map your information usage and create future-proofed policies, training and project user manuals.
Strategy and Policy Advisory
Our detailed understanding of the legal and regulatory landscape for projects, combined with our active policy work and the breadth of projects we advise means we are uniquely well placed to help web3 project put in place effective strategies for growth and risk management.
The connection between strategy, policy and our legal advisory work enables us to get straight to the heart of what is creating value or holding back your project, and we can help your project see clearly through complex or competing demands on your time and resources.
Project Planning
Large enterprises are increasingly working with distributed ledger technology for supply chain management, enterprise infrastructure, carbon tracking, customer experience generation and more.
Engaging with a new technology and asset class can be risky and confusing. We can assist projects to choose suppliers, build business use cases and plan budgets.
Our team have successfully delivered complex digital transformation projects for a range of large organisational clients, from process automation systems to internal knowledge portals and more. We bring together our immense practical experience of project management and agile development methodologies to cut the complexity and bring your project both to a successful launch and beyond.