NAUT tracks 62 people who hold a crypto general counsel, chief legal officer or head of legal title at 61 crypto teams and crypto policy groups, read from its database on 13 November 2026. 55 of the 62 have a LinkedIn profile on file, 25 an X handle and 16 a Telegram handle, so most can be reached on at least 1 channel from their NAUT page.
Data note. NAUT's database, read-only, on 13 November 2026, held 73 rows for 71 people at 70 project teams whose title names a general counsel, chief legal officer or head of legal. 11 rows are left out here, each for its own reason. 2 are deputy or assistant general counsel rows, which are not the team's legal head. 6 are rows whose stored title an outside source contradicted, at Base, Binance, Polymarket, Aptos, Securitize and Plume. 1 is a chief legal officer row at Ethena, for which the outside check found no source; it named general counsel only in search results. 1 is the Coinbase row, because the coverage read for the Base check names other people in Coinbase's legal seat. 1 is a Core row for Lindsey Haswell, whose NAUT person page shows Core as prior career and Tempo as her current seat, so she is listed at Tempo only. That leaves 62 rows, 62 people and 61 teams: Architect_Fi has 2 heads of legal. Binance and Ethena stay in through a second legal row each. 8 titles were put to an outside source check: 1 held, 6 were contradicted, 1 found no source, and the other 61 people in the list are NAUT's record without that check. 8 people have no NAUT profile page yet, so they are named without a link, and 2 teams (Reality and Temporal) have no company page. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.
How do you find a crypto general counsel?
Search NAUT by the legal title, open the team's page, check the title is current, then write on the channel the person lists. That is 4 steps, and the third one matters more here than in most role searches.
- Search all 3 titles. A crypto legal team is led by a crypto chief legal officer, a general counsel or a head of legal. Of the 62, 30 hold a chief legal officer title, 23 a general counsel title and 9 a head of legal title. Search only for general counsel and you miss 39 of them.
- Read the full title. Several stored titles carry a second job: Boris Mamlyuk is CEO and General Counsel at Smart Transactions, Gerald Gallagher is General Counsel and Chairman of the Board at Sei Network, and Kristal Gruevski is Founder and General Counsel at ZivoeProtocol. At those teams the lawyer also sits on the business side of the deal.
- Check the seat before you write. Legal titles go stale. Of the 8 titles NAUT put to an outside check for this article, 1 held: Rebecca Rettig at Jito, whose appointment as Chief Legal Officer Jito Labs announced in January 2025, effective 20 January 2025. 6 of the other 7 checks contradicted the stored title, and 1 (Ethena) found no source for the chief legal officer title, so those rows are left out.
- Use the channel on file. Each person page says which channels NAUT holds. LinkedIn covers 55 of the 62 people, so it is the usual first channel.
- Search 3 titlesChief legal officer (30), general counsel (23) and head of legal (9) cover the 62.
- Open the team pageThe team page lists the legal head beside the founders, as at Jito and Injective.
- Check the seat1 of 8 titles checked for this article held, so read the person's own LinkedIn or X bio first.
- Write on 1 channel55 of the 62 have LinkedIn on file, 25 have X and 16 have Telegram.
Which teams have a crypto general counsel or chief legal officer on NAUT?
These 61 teams, listed below with their legal head as NAUT records it on 13 November 2026. The table is sorted by how many of the 3 channels (LinkedIn, X, Telegram) NAUT holds for the person, then by team name. The seat is grouped from the stored title (CLO is chief legal officer, GC general counsel, Legal head of legal); each person page shows the title in full. Channels: LI is LinkedIn, TG Telegram. 2 rows, DeFi Education Fund and Solana Policy Institute, are crypto policy groups, not product teams.
1Money
Chris Lalan
Alephium
Arkham
Preston J. Byrne
Binance
Eleanor Hughes
DeFi Education Fund
Amanda Tuminelli
DoubleZero
Mari Tomunen
Ethena
Larry Florio
Forward Industries
Georgia Quinn
Injective
Noah Axler
Reserve Rights
Sei Network
Gerald Gallagher
Spiko
Victor Charpiat
ZivoeProtocol
Kristal Gruevski
Dinari
Etherealize
Steve Yelderman
Jito
Rebecca Rettig
Kinesis Gold
Metaplex
OKX
Linda Lacewell
Plasma
Jacob Wittman
Rails
Brent Vegliacich
Smart Transactions
Boris Mamlyuk
Spout Finance
Tempo
Lindsey Haswell
Cathy Yoon
Architect_Fi
Arcium
Sascha Drobnjak
Astra Nova
Backed
Bitget
Blockaid
Brassica (acq. by BitGo)
Caliza
Coinme
EDX Markets
Figure
Inveniam
InvestiFi
Iris Energy
M0
Nillion
Lindsay Danas Cohen
Official Trump Meme Coin
Alan Garten
OpenEden
Palio AI
Dianne Schepers
Polymer
Robinhood
Daniel Gallagher
Solana Policy Institute
Patrick Wilson
Telcoin
tx
Ashley Ebersole
Ubyx
vana
World Liberty Financial
Yellow Card
Yield App
Dr. Jason Corbett
Ava Labs Ecosystem
kash
The Innovation Game
ZkSync13 people have all 3 channels on file, among them Eleanor Hughes at Binance and Noah Axler at Injective. 4 have none: the legal heads at ZkSync, Ava Labs Ecosystem, kash and The Innovation Game, so reach those through the team page instead.
How can you reach a crypto head of legal?
Through LinkedIn first, for most of them: 55 of the 62 people carry a LinkedIn profile on NAUT, against 25 with an X handle and 16 with a Telegram handle.
A person can hold more than 1 channel, so the bars overlap and do not add to 62.
What the crypto legal team list tells a deal maker
- A BD lead selling compliance, custody or tokenization. The legal head signs off on a vendor that touches regulation. Stablecoin, payment and tokenization teams in the table include 1Money, M0, Dinari, Backed and Yellow Card, each with a named legal head.
- A founder raising or listing. A term sheet, a listing agreement or a market-maker contract crosses the counterparty's legal desk. Exchanges in the set include Binance, OKX, EDX Markets and Bitget, and NAUT names the legal head at each.
- An investor sourcing. The legal head is a second contact beside the founder when diligence needs a straight answer on structure, at teams such as Plasma, DoubleZero and Polymer, which each carry a chief legal officer on NAUT.
- Pick the teamsStart from the 61 teams in the table, filtered to your sector.
- Pick the person1 legal head per team, 2 at Architect_Fi.
- Confirm the seatCheck the title on LinkedIn, which 55 of the 62 have on file.
- Send 1 noteUse the channel the person page lists, and give it a week before a second channel.
Related reading on NAUT: How to find decision makers in a company: 5 steps for crypto and Crypto compliance providers: 24 firms, 8 verify identity.
Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?
Yes: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=general%20counsel&limit=100 searches people by title, and the same call with q=chief%20legal%20officer and q=head%20of%20legal covers the other 2 titles, with the key sent as Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY. Each call costs 5 credits, so the 3 searches cost 15, and each person record carries jobTitle, company and the flags hasLinkedin and hasTelegram (docs, pricing). The people's verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial.
Crypto general counsel FAQ
Where can I find crypto general counsels and their contact channels?
On NAUT, which names 62 general counsel, chief legal officer and head of legal contacts at 61 crypto teams and policy groups as of 13 November 2026, each on a person page that says which channels NAUT holds, and through the API call GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=general%20counsel. Their verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial.
How many crypto teams have a general counsel or chief legal officer on NAUT?
61 teams and policy groups, with 62 legal heads between them, in NAUT's database on 13 November 2026. 30 hold a chief legal officer title, 23 a general counsel title and 9 a head of legal title.
Which crypto legal heads can I reach on Telegram?
16 of the 62 have a Telegram handle on NAUT as of 13 November 2026, among them Eleanor Hughes at Binance, Larry Florio at Ethena, Gerald Gallagher at Sei Network and Preston J. Byrne at Arkham.
How do I check a crypto general counsel is still in the seat?
Read the person's own LinkedIn or X bio and the company's own announcements before you write. Of 8 legal titles NAUT put to an outside check for this article, 1 held, Rebecca Rettig as chief legal officer at Jito, and the 7 that did not hold (6 contradicted, 1 with no source found) are left out of the list.
Sources
- NAUT's own database, read-only, on 13 November 2026: every contact whose title names a general counsel, chief legal officer or head of legal at a published project team, with the channels on file for each. Every count above comes from those rows.
- Jito Labs blog, the Rebecca Rettig appointment post, 16 January 2025, with The Block's report as a second source.
- 7 further outside checks: 6, on the Base, Binance, Polymarket, Aptos, Securitize and Plume rows, contradicted NAUT's stored title, and 1, on the Ethena chief legal officer row, found no source for it (general counsel appeared only in search results); those rows are left out.