Cryptocurrency, Tokens and Digital Assets
Protecting wealth that lives outside the institutional safety net.
The discipline.
Practice areas include digital-asset estate planning, custody and multi-sig structuring, trustee selection and oversight, valuation and tax planning, crypto-specific trust drafting, NFT and tokenized-asset succession, and recovery work when keys are lost. Note the New York 2022 UCC Amendments (Article 12, effective June 3, 2026) materially change the legal infrastructure here.
Cryptocurrency, Tokens and Digital Assets is the discipline of protecting wealth that exists in places the traditional system was not built to reach. A client may hold seven figures in Bitcoin, a portfolio of NFTs with no recognized appraisal market, a Solana wallet of speculative tokens, a domain portfolio. The institutions that quietly handle real property — banks, custodians, executors, appraisers — often do not exist for these assets, or exist in forms the client should not trust without counsel.
The work is concrete: structured custody, multi-signature arrangements, trustees who can actually administer a wallet, succession plans that release assets to heirs without exposing private keys to probate, valuation methods that hold up under IRS scrutiny. We help clients build the equivalent of a private bank for assets that have no bank — and we do it with the same composure we bring to a real estate closing. Discreetly. Without theatrics.
Practice areas commonly used here.
A practice is a discrete unit of work — a filing, a closing, a transaction. The discipline is the broader lens. Each practice area below is informed by this discipline; many also draw on others through the matrix below.
Practice areas under this discipline are being written.
For now, schedule a consultation to discuss how this discipline applies to your situation. Detailed practice-area pages will land in subsequent releases.
Where this connects.
How this discipline draws on the others. Engagements rarely sit in one row of the matrix; counsel composed across rows is the point.
Estate Planning
Estate inclusion, RUFADAA access, multi-sig trustee selection, dynasty-trust structuring for crypto holdings.
Read the disciplineReal and Intellectual Property
Tokenized real estate, NFT IP licensing, on-chain ownership records, NY UCC Article 12 (eff. June 3, 2026) on controllable electronic records.
Read the disciplineAI Law
AI agents executing smart contracts, tokenized agent identity (ERC-8004), agentic finance compliance under GENIUS Act.
Read the disciplineArt, Streaming & Entertainment Law
NFT-based art ownership, tokenized music royalties, digital collectibles, on-chain provenance for fine art.
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