Some people come into an industry simply out of curiosity, or on a friend’s recommendation. That’s how Tammy Fisher found her way into Web3, and into crypto law specifically.
In this episode of the Women Leading the Way interview series, the Drofa Comms team sat down with Tammy Fisher, General Counsel at Arbitrum Gaming Ventures. We were talking about what it means to practise law in a space that keeps inventing things the law has not caught up with yet. Tammy’s first steps in the industry looked nothing like a traditional legal career.
She started by writing public research for dxDAO, posting analysis on open forums. She was also drawing on counsel across Switzerland, the UK, and the US, and building consensus among contributors who would vote on governance decisions. There was no attorney-client privilege or hierarchy. Just hard questions: whether a decentralised prediction market could legally operate in the US. Or how EU contractors could get paid by an on-chain treasury.
When she moved into a conventional startup environment, there were plenty of stakeholders and competing incentives. Tammy describes her approach as figuring out how to do things. “I generally approach legal review with the mindset of ‘how can this be done in a legally compliant way?’” she says.
She also shares her read on where Web3 gaming is heading. It moves away from blockchain as an identity and toward blockchain as infrastructure. The teams that will matter should focus on gameplay first. Meanwhile, everything else, on-chain ownership, stablecoin payments, identity solutions, works better as a layer.
And for women in law thinking about entering the space, her advice is the same one she followed herself: start by using the products.
👉 Read the full interview with Tammy here: https://womenlead.co.uk/ideas/tammy-fisher
