Security posture and counsel of record

“We have good ops” is not a review. “We’ll get a lawyer” is not counsel.

Independent security review complete or booked. Not “internal.” Not “a friend looked at it.” Not “we use a famous framework.” Counterparties — exchanges, market makers, serious community, later counsel — will ask. If the answer is a screenshot of a conversation, you will spend the campaign explaining the screenshot. Book the review. Put the engagement letter in the room. Put “review in progress” in the register only if it is true, dated, and not upgraded to “audited.”

Counsel of record means a firm or a named lawyer who will pick up the phone about this instrument, in the markets you intend to touch. Identified is acceptable at application. Engaged is required before any offering language leaves the house. “Crypto Twitter lawyer energy” is not counsel. A general corporate lawyer who has never seen a token file may be a starting point. They are not a pathway.

We will not be your counsel. We will not pick a US exemption, draft a MiCA whitepaper as a legal instrument, or bless a UK promotion. We will make the workspace a place where publishing without them is socially expensive. That is a coordination service. It is not an opinion.

Counsel, as an operating dependency

If they cannot respond inside the SLA, they are not of record. They are a hope.

Who: Firm, named partner or associate, jurisdiction.
Scope: Issuance, offer, promotions, entity, none of the above — written.
Markets: US, UK, EU, other. Silence is not coverage.
SLA: Hours to kill a sentence. Days to review a paper. Not “when we can.”
Not them: RCA Pad. The community. The KOL. The exchange BD.

Planning a regulated ICO? Same screen as everyone.