Darien Advisors is a cryptocurrency-focused tax, accounting, and advisory firm. Our practice works with start-ups, small businesses, individuals, investment funds that transact using cryptocurrency, tokens, or other digital assets. Our main areas of support are portfolio accounting and reporting, tax compliance, and tax advisory services.
We offer free 30min consultation calls to better understand our client’s needs, so feel free to schedule here: https://www.darienadvisors.io/bookings-checkout/free-consultation/book
Our Clients
40+ Individuals: From your traditional mom & pops to full-on degens.
12+ Businesses: From treasury management to accounting to reporting infrastructure
5 Validators: Cosmos, Ethereum, and Solana ecosystems
4 Crypto fund: Custodial & non-custodial funds, vaults, multi-family funds
6 Tokens/DAOs: a few L1s and other L2s
5 NFTs: From early-stage play-to-earn & metaverse projects to traditional NFT artists & collectors
Our Services
Tax and compliance
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Tax advisory and consulting (e.g. what are the implications of X transaction)
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Providing research, regulatory pronouncements, and educational resources.
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Classic tax return preparation for individuals and businesses with cryptocurrency.
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Supporting existing CPA relationship with crypto-specific reporting, advisory, and tax schedule generation.
Technology & systems risk management
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Provisioning, set-up, and walk-through of wallets, protocols, exchanges, tech, reporting.
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Best security practices for reducing wallet, user, seed phrase, access, and authentication risks.
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Structuring internal controls, good governance, and treasury procedures for companies using cryptocurrency.
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Building accounting, consulting, systems implementation for cryptocurrency.
Portfolio Management, Accounting & Reporting
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Bookkeeping, accounting, and tax services for businesses working in crypto or handling crypto.
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Portfolio reporting, reconciliations, and management. Automated and manual.
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Portfolio review, tax planning, structuring, strategic consulting.
Our Expertise
We see a void between the uncharted cryptocurrency space and the established technical, taxation, and regulatory frameworks of today. We bridge this gap for our clients using collective knowledge, experience, and intuition.
Our ability to reconcile wallets/accounts to get them as close as possible to your portfolio is why we are considered experts in the field.
Accounting
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Tax & Compliance
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Portfolio Management, Accounting & Reporting
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Technology, Systems & Risk Management
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Entity & DAO formation
Technical
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DEX and Centralised Crypto Exchanges
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Advanced Trading Platforms (E.g. Stocks, CFD, Forex, Option, Futures…)
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Portfolio Tracking Platforms
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Web/Mobile, Hot & Cold Wallets
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Yield Farming Protocols
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Liquidity Mining Protocols
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P2P/Pool Lending and Borrowing
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Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAOs)
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Crypto Collectible Platforms and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
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Tokenomics Whitepaper
Our Pricing
For Cryptocurrency Tax Reporting
We do our pricing a little differently from other crypto “tax experts”. For us, it’s less about the number of transactions but more about the protocols, wallets, exchanges, and your activity, and how easy it is for us to import the data.
Additional services billed at: $150 per hour
Basic: starts at $500
For casual investors, mom & pops
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Any major Exchanges, Wallets &/or Protocols
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3 unreconciled exchanges and wallets
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Roughly 500 basic transactions*
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IRS Form 8949
*Basic transactions include regular trading, transfers, airdrops, gifting, donation, hardfork, income and spend.
Plus: starts at $1,000
For crypto investors trading on multiple exchanges and services
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Most Exchanges, Wallets &/or Protocols
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Basic DeFi*
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NFTs
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Up to 7 unreconciled exchanges and wallets
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Roughly 5,000 transactions
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IRS Form 8949
*Any DeFi and non-basic transactions such as margin trades, arbitrage, mining, gaming, staking/interest, masternodes, crypto loans, options/futures, NFT’s, etc.
Pro: starts at $2,000
For heavy traders or degens aping in the latest protocols
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Nearly every Exchanges, Wallets &/or Protocols
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Advanced DeFi
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NFTs
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Manual import assistance for crypto account
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10+ unreconciled exchanges and wallets
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10,000+ transactions
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IRS Form 8949
Our Team
Cameron Browne – Partner
Cameron is a Partner at Darién Advisors. He is a CPA with over 12 years of experience working in public accounting, start-ups, fintech, and with small business owners and individuals at his first accounting firm, Browne Accounting SPC. He’s been supporting businesses and individuals since 2016 with their cryptocurrency accounting, taxes, and compliance for activities such as trading, mining/validating, DeFi, and NFT’s.
Efficiency, Transparency, and Confirmability. An auditor’s dream and what first attracted Cameron to the blockchain in 2015 while working in contract compliance at KPMG. Since then, that attraction has solidified into a firm belief that Web3, DeFi, and the broader cryptocurrency movement is a generational opportunity for financial inclusion, democratisation, and capital for a greener, decentralized, privacy-centric, sovereign.
What does Cameron jam on? DeFi on Ethereum, L2’s, and whatever seems fun, collateralized, algorithmic non-custodial stablecoin projects like Dai, Terra, and Kava, DAO’s, as well as the better world blockchain using crypto for good.
Faisal Baeshean – Partner
Faisal is a Partner at Darién Advisors. He is an entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience working in fintech and start-ups leading operations and managing teams (He even once had a small shisha business). He bought his first BTC in 2016 and hasn’t looked back. Since then his crypto passion and experience grew and he’s immersed himself in multiple angles within the space.
Resourceful, Tech-savvy, and a Contrarian. In his spare time, he manages family and friends’ crypto funds and holdings, advises several NFT/blockchain projects, and he manages the building of a Minecraft-based game metaverse community (Uplift).
What does Faisal jam on? L2’s, NFTs, Metaverse, and buying digital plots of lands, and more recently rebase tokens. He is also a fan of Cosmos and its respective ecosystem with projects like Akash and DVPN.
Daniel Ricardi
Daniel is an Accountant at Darien Advisors. For almost 10 years, he has been involved in Financials, Administration, and Business Consulting, mainly for small farming and social entrepreneur businesses. He worked in the Financial sector of a middle size company in Argentina for 13 years, successfully advancing from Assistant to Director. Since 2018 he has managed his own consulting firm, Birdie Consulting.
Daniel’s high ethics and solid financial background are an integral part of his philosophy. He is always open to new ventures and horizons and this has led him to cryptocurrency accounting. He believes it is a redefinition of the (sometimes) boring traditional accounting tasks.
Kara Steele
Kara is Darien Advisor’s Account Manager. She considers herself a jack-of-all trades, crypto newbie, and an avid chocolate cupcake eater. With over 25 years of experience in various industries, from fintech to content creation, one constant is her knack for developing strong client relationships, driving results in managing projects, and innovative solutions for branding and strategy.
Kara considers herself an empathetic leader and she believes everyone plays a key part, there is no role too small. She feels at home in startup companies, where she can make a mark building something impactful.
Our Testimonials
“It was becoming clear that I needed more guidance and expertise than the typical CPA could offer, especially in regards to crypto. After one zoom call with Darien Advisors, I left my previous tax company of 10 years and haven’t looked back.” – Patrick Lawler: NFT Artist & Collection
“I was so happy I went with Faisal and Cameron at Darien Advisors. Tax reporting was a main concern of mine when I started getting into crypto but they made life a lot easier for me and were very friendly and professional!” – Karin A. Individual Investor
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you support all exchanges/wallets?
We support most to all exchanges/wallets. The scope of support would vary and some may require more work which can change the scope. We love learning and expanding our support of exchanges and wallets. This will be discussed with the client and the scope would be confirmed.
What crypto tax tools/services do you use?
We use several tools (Koinly, Accounting, Cointracker…) and services (ApeBoard, Zapper, Blockexplorers…), but our preferred one is Cointracking.info. We provision each one of our clients with a Cointrackin.info account on us. This is where we will be generations tax reports, such as Form 8949, income report, gift/donation report, lost/stolen report, fees report, and closing position report.
Are there any additional fees?
During the onboarding (phase 1) process, we may uncover significant matters requiring additional time to address in order to deliver accurate reports (e.g. non-supported DeFi activities). We will communicate in writing such matters and the additional fees to rectify them.
How long does it take to get my tax reports?
Once you have signed and paid, actually, once you’ve provided us with all wallet addresses and API keys and depending on your case, we commit to complete between 2 weeks to a month. Anyways, after Phase 1, we should have a better estimate. Should we find anything specific at this stage, we would reach out
I have an existing CPA relationship, can I still work with you?
Of course! Many of our clients have established CPA relationships and we understand that cryptocurrency is just one facet of your financial situation.