Marco Santori

Marco Santori is one of the best-known lawyers in crypto, sometimes called the Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers, and is widely recognized as an architect of the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) framework that underpinned many of the largest token offerings of 2017 and 2018. He practiced as a partner at Cooley and Pillsbury Winthrop before moving in-house as President and Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain.com, then served as Kraken's Chief Legal Officer from 2020 to early 2025, where he helped the exchange win the first US bank charter granted to a crypto exchange through Wyoming's special purpose depository institution regime. In 2025 he joined Pantera Capital as a general partner. Earlier in his career he chaired the Bitcoin Foundation's regulatory affairs committee and has served as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund.

5 talks by Marco Santori