Patrick Murck is a crypto lawyer and financial infrastructure entrepreneur who founded Surus, a full-stack digital asset platform. Patrick Murck's Twitter Score is 116 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #5,813 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Patrick Murck co-founded the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization formed to promote Bitcoin development and adoption, and served as its general counsel when he testified before a U.S. Senate committee on digital currencies in November 2013. He also co-founded Plural VC, a venture community of regulatory experts, operators, and investors providing intellectual and investment capital for the future of finance. Previously, Patrick Murck worked at Cooley LLP as special counsel and served as president and chief legal officer at Transparent Systems.
Patrick Murck serves as an advisor to the International Monetary Fund and to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and is an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard and the MIT Digital Currency Initiative. He was formerly an emeritus board member of the BitGive Foundation.
As CEO, Patrick Murck leads Surus, which wholly owns Surus Trust Company, a North Carolina-chartered trust company providing fiduciary services, fund administration, and bankruptcy-remote asset segregation. Surus offers qualified custody, reserve management, stablecoin issuance, asset tokenization, and fund administration for digital asset builders, and is backed by investors including Propel and Protocol VC. Patrick Murck's account has published 7,012 posts and has been mentioned by 163 accounts a total of 608 times, with 12,194 followers as of October 2026 on the platform.
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