Lewis Cohen (@NYcryptolawyer) — Twitter Score 154 out of 1000

Lewis Cohen is a crypto and digital-assets lawyer who serves as a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and Co-Chair of CahillNXT, the firm's digital assets and emerging technology practice. Lewis Cohen's Twitter Score is 154 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #3,952 (top 1%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.

Lewis Cohen co-founded a boutique law firm focused on blockchain technology and previously worked at DLx Law. His practice at CahillNXT covers structuring and launching blockchain protocols and networks, tokenization of real-world assets, and regulatory compliance involving crypto assets. He represents blockchain development companies, foundations supporting protocol communities, marketplace operators, trading firms, and other crypto-asset intermediaries.

Lewis Cohen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in February 2025 at a hearing titled "Exploring Bipartisan Legislative Frameworks for Digital Assets," where he proposed an ancillary-asset framework distinguishing investment-contract activity from day-to-day digital-asset transactions not constituting securities activity. He is frequently consulted by senior regulatory officials, legislators, and media reporters on crypto-asset and blockchain regulation. Chambers FinTech 2025 ranked CahillNXT in FinTech Legal: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Crypto-Asset Disputes, and Fintech Legal, and cited Cohen as a preeminent securities-law attorney in the digital-asset ecosystem.

Lewis Cohen co-authored the 180-page SSRN paper "The Ineluctable Modality of Securities Law: Why Fungible Crypto Assets Are not Securities," posted in December 2022 with Greg Strong, Freeman Lewin, and Sarah Chen. The paper argues that marketplace-based secondary transfers of fungible crypto assets do not create investment-contract transactions and that policy concerns around non-capital-raising crypto activity should be addressed by Congress. Lewis Cohen's account, @NYcryptolawyer, has published 6,286 posts and has been mentioned by 129 accounts a total of 391 times.

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