Digital Asset founders treat legal structure as an afterthought, until they discover what unlimited personal liability looks like in practice.
Token issuance, the foundation, and the operating company each carry different risks; ring-fencing them is what stops a regulatory action against one entity from collapsing the entire project. Jurisdiction is not cosmetic; it dictates who can sue you and where.
@hanverstraete, Founder of
@Otonomos, delivered a lecture on the holy trinity structure for Digital Asset projects: where to incorporate the token issuer (BVI, Panama, Wyoming), where the foundation should sit (Cayman, Panama, Swiss, Wyoming), and why the DevCo should never hold tokens or core protocol assets.
Watch the full lecture here: