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In the past years, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have become an important fundraising method for many individuals and firms. While most regulators, academics and policymakers around the world have...

The years 2017 and 2018 saw an influx of ventures raising substantial amounts of money through initial coin offerings (ICOs). The Ethereum blockchain greatly facilitated the spectacular surge of ICOs...

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, which until today remains the most widely used digital currency worldwide, digital currencies have gained in popularity. More recently, tokens based on different...

In the aftermath of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, a series of alternative financing solutions have emerged, of which one of the most successful are Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). ICOs are a way to...

In the last few years, an ever-increasing number of platforms are launching ICOs (initial coin offerings). But what happens if an insolvent debtor holds tokens and insolvency proceedings are opened?...

It is often said that transactions made on the blockchain are immutable: once the transaction is done, it is done. And in principle they are indeed immutable. Aside from security breaches, changes to...

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) may be a significant innovation in entrepreneurial finance. Blockchain-based digital assets offer cryptographic security and credible commitment devices, which may...

What is an ICO? International Coin Offerings ("ICOs") are increasingly popular among start-up and other companies when raising capital. Investors participate in the fundraising by transferring fiat...

Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum, have not only risen to public attention as novel means of payments. Rather, as we explain in a recent article, the current hype is fueled by financial...

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...

The Bitcoin blockchain has just forked into two rivaling chains; the same split happened to the Ethereum blockchain after its hard fork of July 2016. The development of these, and other,...