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A Critical Appraisal of Initial Coin Offerings
Lifting the “Digital Token’s Veil”
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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.
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.
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).
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
All interested in the latest developments in securities regulation, and anyone concerned with technology law with a particular focus on blockchain technologies.