Khurram Dara is a crypto regulatory lawyer who co-founded Thompson Street, an advisory firm focused on product, public affairs, and policy for frontier technology. Khurram Dara's Twitter Score is 57 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #15,163 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Khurram Dara serves as Partner and General Counsel at Thompson Street. He previously worked at Bain Capital Crypto as a Regulatory and Policy Principal, where he helped crypto projects navigate legal and regulatory questions involving tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. Before that, he previously worked at Coinbase as Policy Counsel in Public Policy, and formerly served as General Counsel at Fluidity, the team behind the decentralized exchange project AirSwap.
Khurram Dara has contributed substantive research on crypto market structure and regulation. He co-authored work arguing that blockchain transaction ordering enables sandwich attacks, examining batched exchange designs as a mitigation, and separately co-authored research on using public blockchains and convex optimization to deliver verifiable best-price execution for batched decentralized-exchange trades. He has also written on proposed U.S. legislation governing when crypto tokens may be treated as securities, and argued that U.S. regulators should not preempt Congress while comprehensive payment-stablecoin legislation was under consideration.
Khurram Dara ran for the Republican nomination for New York Attorney General, a campaign he later described himself as a former candidate of. He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as an advisor to Investor Choice Advocates Network. Khurram Dara's account has 5,083 followers as of August 2026 and 1,884 posts. He has been mentioned by 29 accounts a total of 40 times.
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