I am the Head of Legal and Compliance at Arkham and managing partner of Byrne & Storm, P.C.
For nearly two decades, I have worked at the intersection of international regulation and emerging technologies, as a founder, attorney, think tank fellow, law professor, and executive.
In my free time I’m a Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute where, lately, my research interests have focused on free speech and related technology regulation. I am also on the Legal Advisory Council of the UK Free Speech Union.
My free speech work includes defending numerous U.S. technology companies from domestic and foreign censorship for nearly a decade. Recently this includes quarterbacking the defense, pro bono, of every American enforcement target of the UK Online Safety Act in 2025.
I also created the GRANITE Act foreign censorship shield law concept, and co-authored the Wyoming GRANITE Act bill, which was first-ever foreign censorship shield bill filed in U.S. history. The State Department confirmed, on January 28th, 2026, that federal censorship shield laws like GRANITE are on the verge of introduction in the U.S. Congress.
I’ve taught cryptocurrency law at Fordham Law School in NYC and Antonin Scalia Law School at GMU in DC, although I’m currently taking a break from teaching to focus on work. Previously, I worked as a securitization lawyer in BigLaw in London, England.
Earlier in my career, I co-founded and was COO and general counsel of early enterprise blockchain startup, Monax Industries. Monax forked Ethereum proof-of-concept version 3 to build the first Ethereum DAO prototype and the first permissioned blockchain client, in both cases in 2014. The design later evolved into the Apache-licensed Hyperledger Burrow permissioned Ethereum blockchain node. Burrow was the Hyperledger Project’s first Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and was used by Intel and IBM’s contributions to that project, respectively named Sawtooth Lake and Fabric, to run EVMs on those codebases.
This here is my website and blog. I’m a pretty big fan of marmots, too, so don’t be surprised if you see one of those appearing in a blog post from time to time.
For media or professional inquiries, I can be reached via contact form or on LinkedIn.