Larry Florio

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I'm a securities and derivatives lawyer who works where precedent hasn't formed. Crypto was the first market like that, AI is the second. I'm Deputy General Counsel at Ethena Labs, focused on institutional structuring, regulatory strategy, and strategic transactions. I also advise boards and founders of digital asset ventures on regulatory positioning and market structure. I came up through institutional finance. At Blackstone, I structured products across the firm's insurance, secondaries, multi-asset, and private wealth businesses, from securitized fund interests to insurance dedicated funds, and helped stand up the newly formed Insurance Solutions business. At The Raine Group, I advised on M&A, SPAC transactions, and fund formation across venture, growth equity, and hedge fund strategies. As General Counsel at 1kx, I built the legal and policy framework for one of crypto's earliest institutional venture platforms. On the policy side, I was selected for the SEC Crypto Task Force roundtable on digital asset custody. I also build. Lately that means AI agent systems for legal and regulatory work, including Regulus, a regulatory monitoring "superapp," and an open-source MCP server fo

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