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18 Mar 2019

Proposed regulatory framework of cryptoassets in the UK: A critical analysis

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez

On 23 January 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a guidance on cryptoassets (FCA-GC) with the purpose of improving and clarifying the regulatory framework of cryptoassets in the...
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22 Jun 2018
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The Crypto Puzzle

Dan Awrey

One of the central predictions of the law and finance literature is that strong investor protection laws will promote the development of strong markets. This prediction rests on the observation that...

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06 Dec 2017

Legal Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO)

Iris Barsan

Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), a term intentionally mirroring Initial Public Offerings (IPO), seem to be the new hype of the virtual currency community leading to an all-time high of the bitcoin of...
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31 Aug 2017

Tech Business Law: Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') and The DAO Decision

E Joan | Peter Crane

On 25 July 2017 the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (‘US SEC’) issued a report of investigation in which it classified The Decentralized Autonomous Organization’s (‘The DAO’s’)...

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  • Financial Regulation
12 Jan 2017

Blockchain, Smart Contracts and DAOs from a Legal Perspective

Wardyński & Partners

When we were writing our report on virtual currencies two years ago, we had the impression that we had hit on a topic that would revolutionise the economy and the law. Time has shown that it was just...

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