A Critical Appraisal of Initial Coin Offerings: Lifting the "Digital Token's Veil"

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41657-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

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In A Critical Appraisal of Initial Coin Offerings: Lifting the “Digital Token’s Veil”, Dominika Nestarcova examines the regulatory treatment of initial coin offerings (‘ICOs’), a novel form of raising capital, where start-up companies issue blockchain-based assets (‘digital tokens’) to the public in return for a payment.

The ICO model promises to utilize blockchain technology to enforce financial contracting via the underlying code, thereby substituting the traditional securities regulation. Dominika Nestarcova provides an in-depth analysis of this promise by examining the nature of digital tokens, the process, underlying benefits and risks to the model and the current state of the ICO regulation with an aim to uncover how the self-regulatory promise offered by ICOs lives up the expectations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nestarcova, Dominika

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Kapitalmarkt- und Wertpapierrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Critical Appraisal of Initial Coin Offerings

Lifting the “Digital Token’s Veil”

Dominika Nestarcova

Abstract

Introduction: the Rise of the Crypto-Ecosystem

Part A: ICO Anatomy, Disruption and Benefits

Part B: Risks and Systemic Challenges

Part C: Enforceability and Applicable Legal Regimes

Part D: Token Characterization

Part E: Regulation and Challenges

Conclusion

Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Dominika Nestarcova, is a former research associate at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law, National University of Singapore with a focus on blockchain technologies. Dominika completed her LLB at the Queen Mary University of London (2016) and her LLM at the National University of Singapore (2017).