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Digital Asset Risk, Security & Blockchain Governance
Custody, smart contracts, tokenisation and DeFi exposure examined as operational risk, by someone who has run risk at an exchange.
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Gökhan Polat · Information & Technology Governance Expert
More than twenty years in enterprise risk, internal audit and information security; Paribu, SabancıDx, EY Türkiye. CISA, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, CIA; ISACA accredited trainer.
Legal structuring tells you whether a token is a security; it does not tell you whether the treasury keys are safe, the smart contract has been audited by someone competent, or the custody arrangement survives the departure of one engineer. That second set of questions is where digital asset businesses actually lose money, and where VARA, MiCA and banks now look first.
We assess and build the operational side: governance for the blockchain and token programme, risk frameworks for tokenisation and DeFi activity, custody and key management design, smart contract audit scoping and review, and incident readiness. Delivered alongside our VASP licensing and token structuring practices so the licence file and the operating reality match.
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What this service covers.
Blockchain Governance and Compliance
Decision rights over protocol, treasury and upgrades; roles, controls and records that a regulator or auditor can follow.
Tokenisation and Digital Asset Risk Frameworks
Risk identification and controls for issuance, distribution, redemption and secondary trading, mapped to MiCA and VARA expectations.
Custody and Key Management
Custody model selection, key ceremony and access design, segregation of client assets and monitoring; the controls a bank asks about before opening the account.
Smart Contract Audit Scoping and Review
Defining what must be audited, selecting the auditor, reviewing findings and tracking remediation. We do not write the audit; we make sure it is the right one.
DeFi, NFT and Metaverse Advisory
Operational and governance risk of protocol participation, liquidity provision and NFT programmes, with the legal analysis provided by our Web3 team.
Incident Readiness and Response
Playbooks for key compromise, exploit, exchange freeze and market events; tested with the team before they are needed.
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