Varia Law

{ law • strategy • code }

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Practical advice, specializing in:

• ▸Risk mitigation
  • Diagnosis and actionable options for broad regulatory risk and private legal liability exposure
  
  • Approaches to niche, cutting-edge technical concepts
  
  • Securities law compliance and fundraising strategies
  
  • Privacy and data protection
  
  • KYC, AML, and sanctions compliance
• ▸Contracts
  • Employment, consultant, contractor, and advisor agreements
  
  • Contractual joint ventures, revenue shares, partnerships, license agreements
  
  • Software service agreements, proofs-of-concept, security audit and bounty agreements, ecosystem grants
  
  • Incentives: equity and option agreements, token grants and allocations
  
  • NDAs, terms and conditions, and privacy policies
• ▸Corporate law and startups
  • Full service assistance with starting your business
  
  • Operating agreements, board resolutions, bylaws, joint ventures, and more
  
  • Trademark filings
  
  • SPVs including RWA tokenization and securitizations
  
  • Global entity experience, from LLCs to Cooperatives to Foundations
  
  • Fractional general counsel services
• ▸Product counsel
  • Risk assessment and actionable recommendations
  
  • Decentralized application design, oracles, and smart contract governance
  
  • AI and LLM product and workflow design
  
  • Local and client-side applications
  
  • Advised on the novel mechanism for oracle-recaptured MEV, OEV
• ▸Dispute resolution
  • Negotiation
  
  • Arbitration
  
  • Mediation
  
  • Litigation preparation
  
  • Expert witness services

consult()

Combining legal and coding expertise:

• ▸Strategy, feasibility, and design
  • Ideation, to proof-of-concept, to launch, and iteration
  
  • Revenue treatment, incentives, dependency reduction, and optimization
  
  • Market analysis and product differentiation
  
  • Advisor to Trustless Media, incubator of the first tokenized media cooperative Coinage
• ▸Code "translation" and diligence
  • Code and product interpretation support
  
  • Litigation and legal opinion technical interpretation support
  
  • Crypto tax event and ownership verification and characterization assistance
  
  • Blockchain, AI, and other cutting-edge tech investment diligence
• ▸Trainings and hands-on demos
  • Strategies for compliant and practical AI workflows
  
  • Lectures, CLE presentations, and seminars on software upskilling, AI best practices, cryptocurrency and smart contract usage, risks, and product design
  
  • Educational, plain English presentations on cutting-edge tech concepts
• ▸Comms and documentation triage
  • Whitepapers, website copy, press release review and drafting
  
  • Internal policies and guidelines for public statements and materials
  
  • Technical documentation and interface review
• ▸AI, smart contracts, and other software integrations
  • Stablecoin integrations and automations
  
  • Noncustodial escrow, OTC swaps, and contingent payments
  
  • Token vesting and unlocks, including milestones
  
  • Immutable document and e-signature storage
  
  • AI/LLM workflow implementation, optimization, and compliance solutions

build()

Software development and documentation:

• ▸Custom local software and automations
  • Bespoke automations and scripts
  
  • Private desktop and client-side applications
  
  • Local LLM and NLP implementations
  
  • User guides and documentation
• ▸Program, optimize, test, and deploy Ethereum smart contracts
  • 5+ years of Solidity experience, hundreds of contract deployments, 50+ security audits
  
  • Bespoke DeFi interfaces, oracles, tokens, automated LP and funds flows, and more
  
  • Emphasis on security-by-simplicity and thorough commenting
  
  • Pre-audit cost-effective security and structure review for existing Solidity codebases
  
  • UX and incentive design
  
• ▸Technical Documentation
  • Rectify inaccuracies and under-disclosure of features
  
  • Code commenting and NatSpec
  
  • Style adherence
  
  • Technical documentation and READMEs
  
  • Whitepaper and website copy drafting and review
  
• ▸Security audit assistance
  • Arrangement and negotiation
  
  • Audit report responses and codebase remediation

about()

Varia Law combines broad legal experience, technical fluency, and pragmatism:

• ▸Our Approach
  • AI proficiency with prioritized privacy improves service quality
  
  • Code literacy is essential for advising technical clients
  
  • "It depends" advice is useless— clients must have actionable options
  
  • No matter is too small
  
  • Transparent, capped fees are essential

We respect confidentiality and readily use privacy-preserving communication and payment tools

Founder

Erich Dylus is an attorney and programmer who has founded multiple companies, contributed to the Ethereum ecosystem since 2017, and uses LLMs on a daily basis. He is a frequent contributor to open source P2P and privacy technology projects and nonprofit organizations.

Before founding Varia Law in 2021, Erich practiced secured asset and aviation finance at Vedder Price. His matters included international syndicated financings, leases and securitizations, and regulatory investigations and compliance.

Clients

Our clients range from individuals to small businesses to multinational firms, with flexible arrangements including fixed fees, contingencies, and capped matters.

We often work alongside other firms as a code-native and cost-effective co-counsel or consultant.

Legal services and consulting or development services are provided via separate engagements.

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