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Tom Marshall

Tom Marshall is a senior associate at CMS and is currently on secondment with the institutional legal team at Coinbase. He plays a key role in CMS’s crypto and digital assets team advising exchanges, wallet providers, financial institutions, protocols, DeFi projects, NFT issuers and platforms, DAOs and metaverse projects as well as most of the top VCs and hedge funds in crypto. Tom also works with traditional clients on their digital assets projects, including accepting crypto payments, NFTs, Web3 development, sponsorship, partnering, metaverse and the tokenisation of real world assets. Tom previously worked at Samsung on several blockchain and artificial intelligence projects. Email: tom.marshall@cms-cmno.com

Articles by author

Decentralised Artificial Intelligence

Decentralised machine learning (ML) (sometimes just referred to as Decentralised Artificial Intelligence) differs greatly from centralised ML (and other types of machine learning). This article seeks to explain those differences and explore the benefits, use cases and regulatory challenges faced by Decentralised Artificial Intelligence.

31 MAY 2024

Blockchain interoperability: connecting decentralised infrastructure for traditional finance

In this article, Tom Marshall explains the meaning of interoperability in the context of blockchains, existing infrastructure and why and how traditional finance is getting involved.

1 JUL 2022

Warranties in corporate transactions involving tokens or blockchains: a proposal for a foundational approach

This article outlines a proposed approach to the risks and the protections that are specific to corporate transactions involving tokens or blockchains and proposes warranties designed to protect buyers.

1 APR 2023