Marco is General Partner at Pantera Capital. Once dubbed the "Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers" by the Editor-in-Chief of American Banker, Marco was the Chief Legal Officer at Kraken, one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges, where he built the company's legal and government relations teams and testified before the United States Congress. Prior to Kraken, Marco was the President of Blockchain.com, as well as a Partner at Cooley LLP. At Cooley, he invented the SAFT Framework and co-authored the SAFT Project Whitepaper, which became a market standard for crypto capital formation. He was an advisor to the International Monetary Fund for three years, and an IMF delegate speaker on financial technology in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Marco is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.