Top Blockchain Legal Jobs in New York City, NY

Seeking a detail-oriented Paralegal to support the legal team in regulatory compliance, contract management, and research in the blockchain industry.

As a Senior Corporate Counsel at Ripple, you will support commercial transactions, manage vendor agreements, work cross-functionally, and provide effective legal advice in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Provide legal counsel for outward-facing marketing, communications, product launches, events, brand/IP, and partner initiatives. Review and negotiate marketing and partnership agreements, identify and mitigate regulatory, privacy, consumer protection, and reputational risks, support event and brand strategy, and build scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks to enable fast-moving cross-functional teams.

Provide end-to-end legal support for MoonPay's DeFi and regulated crypto products, advising product and engineering teams from ideation through launch. Advise on regulatory characterization, licensing implications, non-custodial wallet/MPC architectures, AI agent integrations, and commercial agreements while building scalable playbooks and partnering with Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, and external counsel.

Lead Elliptic's US public policy and regulatory engagement for digital assets. Shape federal and state regulatory outcomes, advise internal teams and clients on compliance, represent Elliptic to regulators and Congress, produce thought leadership and testimony, support business development, and embed US regulatory strategy within global regulatory affairs.

Manages legal and compliance operations, including contracts, regulatory filings, corporate governance, entity management, audits, outside counsel, legal technology, and workflow improvements. Supports securities-law compliance, regulated financial products, digital-asset matters, transactions, policies, and business-team guidance under counsel supervision.

Lead and build broker-dealer and transfer agent compliance programs for US operations: create policies and controls, oversee AML and transfer-agent rules, manage filings and regulatory exams, conduct audits and risk assessments, provide training, investigate incidents, and report to executive leadership and the Board.

Provide U.S. regulatory legal counsel on crypto and financial matters, coordinate with agencies and internal teams on investigations, enforcement, AML/sanctions compliance, remediation, and regulatory filings, and advise on evolving U.S. regulatory developments affecting the business.

Lead global legal and compliance for a crypto exchange, advising on regulatory matters, drafting bilingual contracts, overseeing cross-jurisdictional compliance, coordinating international counsel, mitigating legal risk, and monitoring evolving digital-asset regulations.