Ensuring the lawful emergence of Web3.0 in China.
Recently, Liu Honglin, founder and managing director of Mankun Law Firm, was successfully selected as a recommended lawyer in the "Emerging Industries · Digital and Technological Innovation" category of the "2026 Xinze Annual List."
This distinction is not only a recognition of Lawyer Liu Honglin’s individual professional capabilities but also a significant affirmation of Mankun Law Firm’s deep cultivation and achievements in the emerging field of Web3.0 legal services.
The list is grounded in the structural changes of China’s legal profession and the backdrop of industrial upgrading, focusing on lawyers who continuously provide professional legal services in emerging industries and have established stable practical pathways. The selection process comprehensively considers lawyers’ long-term service areas, typical project experience, professional continuity, and industry influence, emphasizing genuine business accumulation and verifiable results.
Lawyer Liu Honglin currently serves as a member of the Youth Work Committee, the Information Technology Work Committee, and the Legal Technology Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association. He continuously participates in industry governance and the professional development of Web3.0. He has been interviewed or featured by numerous mainstream domestic and international media outlets, including Reuters, Caijing, The Beijing News, Southern People Weekly, Jiemian News, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The Straits Times (Singapore), MetaEra, PANews, Foresight News, and Techub News. He has been invited multiple times to lecture and share insights at globally renowned universities and business schools, such as CEIBS, Peking University HSBC Business School, Tsinghua University PBCSF, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He led the publication of the "2020 Annual Report on Blockchain in the Legal Industry" and contributed to the book "The Twilight of the Corporate System: Blockchain Thinking and Digital Incentives," continuously offering observations and reflections on Web3.0 industry trends and legal compliance issues through research reports and professional publications.
In his legal practice, Lawyer Liu Honglin has long served as legal counsel for multiple blockchain enterprises with listed company backgrounds, providing compliance consulting services to over one hundred blockchain enterprises and projects.
When handling matters involving crypto assets compliance, identification of legal risks in on-chain projects, and legal assessment of new business models, he is able to propose actionable solutions by combining changes in the regulatory environment with industry operational logic, helping clients maintain compliance and achieve steady development in complex environments.
His personal background reflects a composite profile combining law and internet entrepreneurship. He previously served as Vice President of a legal technology company under Tencent’s strategic investment arm and as the head of legal affairs for a private equity fund with a listed company background. This experience has equipped him with a systematic understanding of the relationships between business models, capital structures, and legal practice, enabling him to make more balanced judgments between compliance requirements and commercial realities in legal services for the new economy.
Founded in 2015, Mankun Law Firm is a boutique law firm in China specializing in the Web3.0 new economy and deeply engaged in the blockchain industry. Members of the Mankun team possess unique and diversified industry backgrounds, hailing from renowned legal service institutions, national judicial organs, internet technology companies, crypto asset institutions, and blockchain industry think tanks.
Based on a profound understanding of the new economy, continuous attention to and research on policies and regulations, and rich practical experience, the Mankun team excels in providing comprehensive legal services from the perspectives of business models and legal practice. These services include business structure design, project financing and investment, transaction planning, operational compliance, resolution of complex civil and commercial disputes, prevention and control of criminal risks, and criminal defense for new economy enterprises in sectors such as Web3.0, blockchain, AI, NFTs, digital collectibles, crypto funds, crypto payments, DeFi, real-world assets (RWA), and GameFi.
Mankun Law Firm is headquartered in Shanghai, with branch offices in Hong Kong (China), Silicon Valley (USA), Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu. To meet the global compliance development needs of Web3.0 industry clients, Mankun has established local offices in major global crypto-financial cities and selected local professional blockchain service partners, providing clients with professional legal and compliance services that combine global breadth with Chinese depth.
As the founder, Lawyer Liu Honglin consistently adheres to the philosophy of "ensuring the lawful emergence of Web3.0 in China," actively promoting the implementation and evolution of legal compliance practices in emerging fields through compliance research and industry advocacy.
In the future, Mankun Law Firm will continue to deepen its engagement in the Web3.0 industry, assisting enterprises in achieving sustainable development within a compliance framework through specialized and systematic legal services, thereby contributing professional strength to the healthy development of China’s Web3.0 ecosystem.
About the Lawyer
Liu Honglin, Founder of Mankun Law Firm. Member of the Youth Work Committee, the Information Technology Work Committee, and the Legal Technology Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association. Lawyer Liu Honglin possesses 10 years of experience in law and internet entrepreneurship. He previously served as Vice President of a legal technology company under Tencent’s strategic investment arm and as legal manager for a private equity fund of a listed company. He specializes in proposing actionable and practical solutions for cases from the perspectives of business models and legal practice, maximizing commercial interests for clients.
About Mankun
Mankun Law Firm was founded in 2015 and is a boutique law firm in China specializing in the Web3.0 new economy and deeply engaged in the blockchain industry. Members of the Mankun team possess unique and diversified industry backgrounds, hailing from renowned legal service institutions, national judicial organs, internet technology companies, crypto asset institutions, and blockchain industry think tanks.
Based on a profound understanding of the new economy, continuous attention to and research on policies and regulations, and rich practical experience, the Mankun team excels in providing comprehensive legal services from the perspectives of business models and legal practice. These services include business structure design, project financing and investment, transaction planning, operational compliance, resolution of complex civil and commercial disputes, prevention and control of criminal risks, and criminal defense for new economy enterprises in sectors such as Web3.0, blockchain, AI, NFTs, digital collectibles, crypto funds, crypto payments, DeFi, real-world assets (RWA), and GameFi.
Mankun Law Firm is headquartered in Shanghai, with branch offices in Hong Kong (China), Silicon Valley (USA), Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu. To meet the global compliance development needs of Web3.0 industry clients, Mankun has established local offices in major global crypto-financial cities and selected local professional blockchain service partners, providing clients with professional legal and compliance services that combine global breadth with Chinese depth.
