Full-Time
Legal Counsel
Posted on 4/22/2025
Alchemy
201-500 employees
Provides APIs/SDKs to build web3 apps
Compensation Overview
$225k - $275k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid work model with a vibrant office in downtown SF and NYC.
US Citizenship Required
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- 3+ years of legal experience, preferably with a mix of BigLaw experience and in-house experience at a high-growth tech company
- JD from an accredited law school
- Member of a U.S. state bar in good standing, preferably in California or New York
- Be an outstanding collaborator with colleagues in sales, product, engineering, finance/accounting, operations, corporate development, equity, and other areas
- Draft and negotiate agreements with strategic customers, blockchain protocols, partners, and software providers
- Develop and update agreements, website terms, and policies, and other scalable processes to help our teams to move faster
- Counsel our product and engineering teams on new product launches and help translate regulations including sanctions, securities law, money transmission laws
- Coordinate with our marketing team to review and develop scalable guidelines on promotional materials and contests
- Support our corporate development efforts and oversee strategic acquisitions
- Stay current with global regulatory frameworks, and support engagement with regulators & lawmakers, notice & comment letters, and review of draft legislation
- Oversee corporate structuring, including domestic and international entity formation to meet business needs
- Advise on global data protection laws, including GDPR and CCPA, ensuring that the company's data handling practices comply with privacy regulations
- Advise our People team on employee policies, and other employment law issues
- Continue to build our patent and trademark portfolio, lead trademark enforcement efforts, and counsel engineering teams on open-source strategy
- Advise our Alchemy Ventures team on investment documents (SAFEs, token warrants)
- familiarity with financial & securities regulations
- Web3 experience
- startup experience
- experience founding a company or building side projects
Alchemy builds a platform for developers to create and scale web3 applications. It provides a suite of APIs, SDKs, and tools that help users launch NFT apps, monitor smart contract activity, and access token data across multiple blockchains. The core product includes a multi-chain API to launch, verify, analyze, trade, and display NFTs, real-time push notifications, and the ability to track any smart contract or marketplace activity. The system emphasizes reliability, data accuracy, and scalable performance to handle large volumes of data and transactions. Revenue likely comes from a subscription-based model that grants access to transaction simulation, frontrunning protection, real-time notifications, and other development tools. Alchemy’s goal is to provide developers with a dependable, scalable backend platform that simplifies building and maintaining web3 applications.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$545M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2017
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $20M Solana fund provides up to $25K credits, deepening multichain developer lock-in.
- OVHcloud partnership scales infrastructure to new regions ahead of schedule in April 2026.
- C1 Fund investment leverages Alchemy's 70% share of top crypto apps and $100B transactions.
What critics are saying
- Infura erodes market share with cheaper AWS-integrated APIs within 12-18 months.
- QuickNode undercuts Solana pricing 20x cheaper, capturing DeFi apps in 6-12 months.
- EU MiCA rules mandate node decentralization, forcing Alchemy rebuilds in 18-24 months.
What makes Alchemy unique
- Cortex engine delivers 13x throughput and 5x reliability versus competitors.
- AgentPay enables one integration for AI micropayments across x402, MPP, A2P, L402 protocols.
- Supernode infrastructure powers $4.2T annual transactions with 99.99% uptime across 50+ chains.
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6 month growth
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↓ -2%Alchemy has launched a $20 million Solana developer fund designed to reduce early infrastructure costs for Web3 application builders. Selected projects can receive up to $25,000 in credits for node access, APIs and tooling, with no long-term commitments required. The credit-based model allows teams to build, test and scale on Solana without prohibitive upfront costs. Credits apply to Alchemy's Web3 stack, focusing support on technical execution rather than general operating expenses. The initiative reflects a strategic shift in Web3 funding models, where infrastructure credits may increasingly supplement traditional venture capital and token sales. By subsidising technical infrastructure rather than offering cash grants, Alchemy aims to reduce barriers to experimentation whilst deepening its presence within the Solana ecosystem and intensifying competition for developer activity across blockchain networks.
Introducing the $20M Alchemy Solana Fund. Today Alchemy is launching the Alchemy Solana Fund - a $20M fund, dedicated to Solana builders. Solana now processes billions of transactions per month. Stablecoin market cap on Solana has surged past $15 billion. DeFi TVL sits around $7 billion, with SOL-denominated TVL near all-time highs. Nearly 2 million wallets are active daily, and the builder momentum is real: Visa, PayPal, Worldpay, and Western Union are all building or settling on Solana's rails. The program is straightforward: claim credits, run your Solana traffic on Alchemy, and decide if it's the right fit for your stack. No lock-in, no proprietary APIs. Apply now for up to $25,000 in credits on Solana. What Alchemy has built. Get 20x faster archival access, 2x the throughput, and 99.99% uptime, and leverage the same Solana infrastructure behind Robinhood, Solflare, OpenSea, and Circle to power your apps at scale with affordable pay-as-you-go pricing and best-in-class developer experience. If you're already on Alchemy for EVM chains, easily enable Solana in the dashboard with a single click! No separate provider, no separate bill. What's available. Credits apply directly to Solana usage on Alchemy. There are three tiers: | Tier | Credits per team | Who it's for | | Trial | Up to $250 | Early builders shipping v1 to production within three months. Let's help you accelerate to launch. | | Grow | $500-$1,000 | Teams scaling past the free tier into production volume. Credits offset your ramp while you evaluate - the more you use, the more value you get. | | Enterprise | Up to $25,000 | Teams evaluating Alchemy for large-scale Solana infrastructure. Custom packages available. | Who it's for. This program is open to anyone building on Solana - whether you're evaluating providers, migrating from another platform, consolidating your multichain infrastructure onto Alchemy, or returning to Solana after some time away. Enterprise and institutional teams evaluating at scale can reach out to its team for a structured proof-of-concept. Working with the ecosystem. Alchemy love Solana builders and are giving priority access and 15% more credits to builders from the following communities. Get in touch with the respective team for a special code to plug into your application. Don't see your community listed and want to get more Solana builders credits on Alchemy? Reach out to Alchemy here. Get started. Apply here and send your first request today. For enterprise inquiries, contact Alchemy here.
Alchemy has launched AgentPay, a payments tool designed for AI agent transactions, following a private beta ahead of a wider release in coming weeks. The product addresses fragmentation in agentic payments by acting as a translation layer between merchants and different payment protocols, without handling customer funds. Traditional payment pricing makes sub-dollar micropayments uneconomical, with Stripe charging 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. AgentPay supports emerging standards like Coinbase's x402 protocol, which uses on-chain stablecoins such as USDC for pay-per-use transactions. McKinsey estimates AI agents could facilitate up to $5 trillion in global commerce by 2030. By positioning itself as middleware coordinating machine-run micro-transactions, Alchemy moves higher in the software stack whilst potentially facing lower regulatory pressure than traditional payment processors.
Crypto's 'AWS' Alchemy unveils tool to make AI payment systems talk to each other. Alchemy's AgentPay addresses the problem that the agentic payment systems currently coming online don't talk to one another. Apr 8, 2026, 1:43 a.m. * AgentPay promises one integration for every protocol, citing the likes of x402, MPP, A2P, L402. * Alchemy has carried out a private beta soft launch for now, and is aiming for a general release in the coming weeks. Alchemy, a cryptocurrency infrastructure provider used by many blockchains and firms in the space, has released a new tool, AgentPay, that lets different AI payment systems, from companies like Coinbase, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Circle, work together. The new tool addresses the problem that agentic payment systems currently coming online aren't "interoperable", or in other words, don't talk to one another, meaning a merchant that wants AI agents as customers has to build a separate integration for every protocol. "That's not sustainable, and it's only going to get more fragmented as more systems launch," said Alchemy CTO Guillaume Poncin in an email. "AgentPay fixes that. A merchant registers their existing API with us, we give them a new endpoint, and any agent on any supported protocol can pay them through it." Alchemy is widely seen as the "AWS of Web3," as it provides the infrastructure, developer tools, and node services needed to build blockchain applications. AgentPay promises one integration for every protocol, citing the likes of x402, MPP, A2P, L402. "We sit in the middle as the translation layer, where AgentPay routes instructions, and Alchemy never touches the funds," Poncin said. So-called agentic finance, which is expected to become a major pillar of all payments activity on the internet, can involve micro-transactions, or nano-payments, some of which take place between AI agents with humans somewhere in the background. Alchemy has carried out a private beta soft launch for now, and is aiming for a general release in the coming weeks. More For You Mar 31, 2026 Most crypto privacy models weaken as blockchain data grows. Encryption-based models like Zcash strengthen. CoinDesk Research maps the five privacy approaches and examines the widening gap. Why it matters: As blockchain adoption scales, the metadata available to machine learning models scales with it. Obfuscation-based privacy approaches are structurally degrading as a result. This report provides a comprehensive comparison of all five major crypto privacy architectures and a framework for evaluating which models remain durable as AI capabilities improve. 5 hours ago One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star. Another replicates every major "quantum factoring breakthrough" using a 1981 home computer and a dog. What to know: * Quantum computers pose a genuine long-term risk to bitcoin, but current fears often conflate wallet vulnerabilities with largely impractical threats to mining. * New research finds that a quantum 51% attack on bitcoin mining would require star-level energy and hardware on a scale that is physically unreachable. * The more realistic concern...
Uniblock has raised $5.2 million in new funding, bringing total capital to $7.5 million. Investors include SBI, AllianceDAO, Blockchain Founders Fund, NGC Ventures, Alchemy and MoonPay. The blockchain infrastructure provider operates a managed layer across more than 300 blockchains through 55 data partners, using patented auto-routing technology for provider selection, failover and data normalisation. The platform provides access to over 3,000 APIs through a single connection. Currently, 3,000 projects and 4,000 developers use Uniblock, including Plume Network, Stellar Blockchain and Apechain. The company has launched AI-native developer tools including an MCP server and LLM-optimised documentation for coding environments like Cursor and GitHub Copilot.