Initial Coin Offerings

Initial coin offerings are proxy equity fundraising structure that allows entrepeneurs to raise crypto assets in a common enterprise outside of existing securities regulation. Initial coin offerings are an example of regulatory-arbitrage of security regulation.

Initial coin offerings are illegal in the United States.

See also security and regulatory arbitrage.

References

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