Digital Assets and Crypto

EY offers an experienced, multi-disciplinary team that is prepared to assist you in driving toward business opportunity while recognizing the potential risks of not following a thoughtful, informed approach. Our team draws on best practices from serving both traditional financial services firms (across all sectors) and the emerging, digital natives.

Digital assets: the next wave of finance

Digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins are becoming a more significant part of our financial system, thanks to the power of blockchain technology. Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) is here to help clients navigate their journey into digital assets. We offer a wide range of sector-based capabilities across product strategy, technology infrastructure, tax and regulatory implications, risk management and transaction lifecycle support for going public or making acquisitions. Our team is dedicated to helping clients create effective strategies and explore innovative operating and revenue models that can drive their success in this evolving landscape.

Revolutionizing modern finance and value creation

The digital assets ecosystem and the underlying blockchain technology allow for instant payments and settlement, portfolio diversification, immutable security and privacy, and fractionalized asset ownership to unleash new business and operating models. These new capabilities could change how institutions raise capital, launch new products, lend money, advise clients and manage risk.

Capturing opportunity with digital assets





What can EY US do for you?

EY US brings a multidisciplinary approach to the digital assets journey. Leveraging our knowledge and experience in strategy and industry insights, tax, compliance, and blockchain technology, we provide traditional finance (TradFi) firms with foundational strategies to capture new opportunities, while equipping digital native companies with strong governance frameworks to manage risk and drive growth. Overall, we are helping clients bring compliant, secure and resilient digital asset offerings to market and enabling safe, responsible growth.

EY areas of focus across the digital assets and crypto ecosystem

Our EY Digital Assets and Crypto team can help your business provide forward thinking, multidisciplinary guidance with your own individual strategies.

EY US offerings

  • Digital assets strategy
  • Product strategy and design
  • Stablecoins and payments
  • Tokenization
  • Mining
  • Staking
  • DeFi / decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)
  • Regulatory registration
  • Integrations
  • Managed services
  • Valuations
  • Technology transformation
  • Finance transformation
  • Forensics
  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
  • Accounting and reporting
  • Initial public offering (IPO) / special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) readiness
  • Assurance and attestation
  • Risk management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Internal audit and controls
  • Tax services
  • FinCrime compliance
  • Treasury
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Smart contract vulnerability testing
  • Cyber and resiliency
  • Ecosystem partnerships

Market-leading blockchain analysis and management solutions


EY Blockchain Analyzer

Smart Contract & Token Review

As part of our blockchain platform, the Smart Contract & Token Review solution allows users to customize tests and reports, identify vulnerabilities, and mitigate risks in the token deployment process and the code underlying of smart contracts.




EY Blockchain Analyzer

Tax Calculator

As part of the EY Blockchain platform, Tax Calculator is a web-based solution where individuals can easily calculate capital gains/losses from trading cryptocurrencies and produce US tax Form 8949.



EY OpsChain

Contract Manager

Our blockchain platform can help transform the business lifecycle for digital ecosystems, while promoting trust, transparency and efficiency.



EY OpsChain

Public Finance Manager

With EY OpsChain Public Finance Manager, governments can spend money more effectively and efficiently. The solution helps public finance managers overcome long-standing barriers, such as lack of timely and accurate reporting of value for money.



EY OpsChain

Traceability

As part of the EY Blockchain platform, The EY OpsChain Traceability solution provides a trusted platform for traceability and transparency within a supply chain ecosystem through the use of notarization and tokenization. Our blockchain-enabled technology capabilities help clients deliver long-term value by improving brand equity, revenue and operational performance.


Connect with our Digital Assets and Crypto team

Photographic portrait of Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson
Digital Assets Solution Leader

Photographic portrait of Thomas Shea

Thomas Shea
Digital Assets Tax Leader

Photographic portrait of Prashant Kher

Prashant Kher
Digital Assets Strategy and Transactions Leader

Photographic portrait of Kristina Sanger

Kristina Sanger
Digital Assets FinCrime Co-Leader

Photographic portrait of Jake Jacobson

Jake Jacobson
Digital Assets FinCrime Co-Leader

Photographic portrait of Arwin Holmes

Arwin Holmes
Digital Assets Technology Consulting Leader

Photographic portrait of Rebecca Carvatt

Rebecca Carvatt
Digital Assets Finance Ops and Transformation Leader

Photographic portrait of Mark Nichols

Mark Nichols
Digital Assets Product, Operations and Risk Co-Leader

Photographic portrait of Brendan Maher

Brendan Maher
Digital Assets Product, Operations and Risk Co-Leader

Photographic portrait of David Byrd

David Byrd
Digital Assets Assurance Leader

Photographic portrait of Rahul Chandarana

Rahul Chandarana
Digital Assets M&A Leader

Photographic portrait of Paul MacIntosh

Paul MacIntosh
Digital Assets Assurance Advisory Leader


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