Citywealth Leaders List: Top 50 Crypto Professionals 2026

Byline: Karen Jones, founder of Citywealth, has more than 20 years’ experience in global private wealth.

Meet Citywealth’s 2026 Top 50 Crypto professionals. Tax, regulation, inheritance, disputes and the changing digital-asset market.

Citywealth’s 2026 Top 50 Crypto list recognises recommended professionals working across the digital-asset ecosystem. Their expertise spans legal and regulatory advice, tax, fiduciary and wealth services, restructuring, technology and forensic risk—reflecting a market that increasingly connects with mainstream finance and private wealth. Researched over the last year it includes recommendations from global professionals.

As stablecoins, tokenised assets and digital-asset businesses develop, so do the questions around reporting, succession, governance and cross-border regulation. The list highlights people advising clients across those areas, at a time when new UK rules and changing tax and property frameworks are shaping the next phase of digital finance. That wider ecosystem is also being tested. The $6.3bn Binance hack has brought security and asset recovery into sharp focus, as new rules, tax reporting requirements and property law reshape how crypto is used, held and passed on. The list highlights professionals advising clients across these connected areas.

Compiled by: Karen Jones, founder of Citywealth and a wealth management commentator with more than 20 years’ experience across global private wealth, family offices, and succession. Before founding Citywealth in 2005, she held commercial roles at The Times and The Sunday Times, London; Legal Business magazine and worked on the Asia Pacific Legal 500, launching related awards.

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