A crowd-sourced legal helper for building and operating on the open web — do it yourself first, get the last percent signed off by a lawyer.
DE · AT · CH · FLThis is a crowd-sourced legal helper. The idea is to do it yourself first and get the last percent signed off by a lawyer before you submit anything to an authority. Use ChatGPT for basic questions, but always check with a lawyer of your choice before submitting to authorities.
Nothing on this page is legal advice and nothing here replaces your own lawyer. Every summary links back to the source documentation at docs.web3.legal.
Short, practical answers that people actually ask first. Each is a starting point, not a substitute for a signed opinion.
Are you allowed to give out personal information about your clients without their consent?
Do you know if your security is really a security? For a token to be a transferable security it must be freely transferable without significant restrictions; board-approval riders and liquidity limits push it out of scope.
Structuring tokens and staying compliant, primarily from the Liechtenstein & MiCAR angle with transferable-skill to DE, AT and CH.
Blockchain law and the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. For initial informal discussions with the FMA, see the official page below.
Since February, self token issuers are not required to run any AML/KYC. We still strongly recommend a base layer of compliance, especially if you deal with financial institutions, asset managers or other regulated entities.
Equity and profit-participation token structures including nominal value vs total issuance calculations, name shares and bond tokens.
Trust, economic-interest arrangements and tokenized variable capital companies (VCC) for Asian-side structuring.
Our friends at investhub.io provide the most affordable base layer of compliance.
Recovering assets — both on-chain and off-chain. We connect you to people who fund and carry legal recovery work.
Recovering assets that sit off the chain — bank accounts, corporate recoveries, deleted-company (gelöschte AG) reinstatement and similar.
Tracing and recovering assets that sit on-chain across wallets and chains.
You need help? Reach out to one of our members: litigation-financing.io for merit screening, funding and counsel.
We publish legal tooling and notes for the following markets.
Documentation lives at docs.web3.legal — the knowledge layer. This page is the front door.
Machines and AI agents should start from llms.txt, which indexes every page and service in a flat, parseable form.
Point agents at https://web3.legal/llms.txt for the full catalog. The application/ld+json block in this page's <head> exposes the same services as schema.org LegalService entities.