Marta Francesca Belcher is an American technology attorney who has been called a pioneer in the area of blockchain law.
[citation needed] During college and law school, she served as the executive director of No Worries Now, a national nonprofit, for which she received numerous awards, including being named Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day.
[3] At Stanford Law School, Belcher and two other students delivered a crowdsourced commencement speech written using an online wiki.
[1][20] Belcher serves as general counsel for one of the largest cryptocurrency projects, defended one of the first patent litigations against a blockchain company, and was recognized by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer awards in 2018 for her pioneering work on the first blockchain-transferable software license and in 2019 for her work on the Protocol Labs Permissive License Stack.
[25][26][27] Belcher received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization's Web3 Pioneer Award at the United Nations in 2022, celebrating her as a trailblazer and innovator in her field.