On-chain compliance infrastructure
Compliance, made portable.
Regulation, made programmable.
Submit your documentation once. A licensed legal professional co-signs a scoped legal opinion, and it becomes a credential on Base that your counterparties can check for themselves.
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What LEXI is
A legal opinion you can rely on, recorded where anyone can check it.
LEXI Protocol is compliance infrastructure that turns co-signed legal opinions into dated, scope-bound, verifiable on-chain credentials for Web3 teams operating across India, the UAE and the US. Built on Base.
A fine-tuned engine prepares the first pass as work product. A licensed legal professional runs their own diligence and co-signs the opinion. The credential names who may rely on it, and those reliers can verify the credential on-chain in a single call. To be clear about the words: "clearing" a jurisdiction on LEXI means obtaining a co-signed legal opinion covering it. A credential is not a licence, a registration, or a regulator's approval.
The problem
Web3 is borderless. Regulation isn't.
A project touching India, the UAE and the US has to satisfy frameworks that do not talk to each other. The UAE alone added a federal layer when the Capital Market Authority's decree-laws came into force in January 2026.
Sequential counsel
Three jurisdictions means three engagements, three timelines, and memos that never reference each other.
Unverifiable output
The result is a PDF opinion nobody downstream can check. Your counterparties take your word for it, or they don't.
One flow, one artifact
One submission covers your target jurisdictions, and the output is a credential your counterparties verify themselves.
How it works
From documents to credential, in one flow.
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Submit once
Upload documentation to encrypted storage and pick the jurisdictions you need.
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The engine runs the first pass
Checklist, document review, risk read. Its output is work product, not an opinion. No AI signs anything at LEXI.
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A licensed professional takes over
They review the work product, run their own diligence, and co-sign the legal opinion with a stake behind their signature.
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The opinion becomes a credential
Dated, scope-bound, naming its reliers. Hash commitments go to Base; reliers verify in one call.
Two sides, one protocol
Pick your side of the signature.
For protocols
Get opinioned across your target jurisdictions
- Submit once for the jurisdictions you pick, starting with VARA compliance in Dubai
- Get a scoped opinion a counterparty can actually rely on, co-signed by a licensed professional
- Give exchanges, partners and reliers a credential they verify themselves, in one call
For legal professionals
Co-sign opinions. Keep your client and your standards.
- The engine does the first pass; you run your own diligence and the signature is yours
- The protocol retains your firm separately, so the client relationship stays where it belongs
- Disputes go to a committee. Reliers cannot slash you, and nothing is automatic
The protocol
Three layers. One credential.
An AI does the reading, a licensed human owns the judgment, and the result lives on-chain where anyone can check it.
Regulatory intelligence engineThe AI reads the rulebooks
A fine-tuned engine, in development on a proprietary corpus of real regulatory work, produces the checklist, the document review and the risk read. All of it is work product. Anything below confidence routes to the human who owns the opinion.
Legal professionalsA licensed human signs it
Lawyers and compliance officers post a USD-pegged stake of about $5,000 in $LEXI to be eligible to co-sign. Their on-chain record is their track record. When a relier flags a dispute, a committee adjudicates it and can slash the stake for proven misconduct.
On-chain attestation layerThe credential anyone can verify
A credential on Base that commits to the opinion by hash and names who may rely on it. The opinion body stays off-chain, encrypted. A credential only mints against the signatory's own signature, and signing keys never leave the signatory. zkKYC for individuals follows in V1.
$LEXI
The token is plumbing, not the product.
No token is live and nothing on this site is an offer or solicitation. The mechanics below are protocol design.
Services in USDC
Protocols and reliers pay in USDC for credentials and reliance access. Customers never need to hold $LEXI.
Buyback and burn
40% of protocol USDC revenue is used to buy $LEXI on-market and burn it. 60% funds the treasury and operations.
The signatory bond
Legal professionals stake a USD-pegged $5,000 in $LEXI to be eligible to co-sign. Slashing is committee-adjudicated.
Parameters, not verdicts
Holders vote on jurisdictions, fees and treasury. Token holders never vote on whether a protocol is compliant.
Team
Built by operators.
The moat is a working legal practice, a proprietary corpus of real regulatory opinions, and a warm pipeline on the corridor. None of it is hypothetical.
Lex Arbitrage
Corridor strategy and protocol design. The founding team runs a working Web3 and fintech legal practice across India, the UAE and the US: VDA regulation, PMLA, and VARA and CMA structuring.
Karthik
Three-time founder. Co-founded Spicenet, a derivatives protocol that raised a $3.4M seed led by Hack VC (2024). Builds derivatives exchanges, multi-asset risk engines and market-making systems.
Ben Dhaya Ahmed
Growth, partnerships and ecosystem across Europe, the Middle East and emerging markets. Builds the alliances and the runway into fundraising and regulatory engagement.
Latest briefing · 2026-07-03
The UAE's federal CMA: what Decree-Laws 32 and 33 of 2025 change for virtual assets
The SCA became the Capital Market Authority on 1 January 2026, and virtual assets now sit inside a federal perimeter alongside VARA. What that means for teams structuring in Dubai.
Roadmap
Now, next, later.
V0 · VARA first
V0 is live on Base Sepolia, end to end: documentation in, engine first pass, co-signature flow, credential minted on testnet. Hardening and the mainnet audit are next. Mainnet target: end of August 2026.
India rail and zkKYC
Firm KYB and revocable credentials. Individual zkKYC, privacy-preserving and portable, built with Noir. Exchange integrations.
The corridor standard
US and EU rails. Credentials as a verification layer for exchanges, DeFi gating and RWA platforms. No dates until they are real.
Get involved
The trust layer for institutional Web3 is being built.
Build it with us.
V0 opens VARA-first with a small founding cohort. Early protocols get the first clearance slots and a say in the credential schema. Early professionals set the standard the panel is held to.
What is true today
A working cross-border legal practice, a proprietary corpus of real regulatory opinions, and a warm pipeline. V0 is live on Base Sepolia (testnet), end to end: documentation in, engine first pass, co-signature flow, credential minted. Nothing is live on mainnet yet, and this page will say so until it is.