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

by Dominika Nestarcova

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004416574
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Series:	Brill Research Perspectives Series
Edition description:	Critical
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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