1st Edition
Crypto-Finance, Law and Regulation Governing an Emerging Ecosystem
By Joseph Lee
Copyright 2022
252 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
252 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Crypto-Finance, Law and Regulation investigates whether crypto-finance will cause a paradigm shift in regulation from a centralised model to a model based on distributed consensus.
This book explores the emergence of a decentralised and disintermediated crypto-market and investigates the way in which it can transform the financial markets. It examines three components of the financial... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Distributed ledger technologies in capital markets 3. Crypto-assets law and regulation 4. Smart contracts and financial transactions: practice, risk, and governance 5. Regulatory objectives for cryptocurrency systems: unstable coins, stable coins and state-backed cryptocurrency 6. Security Token Offering (STO) and investor protection 7. Access to finance and Artificial Intelligence on blockchain network 8. DLT-based crowdfunding platforms and investor protection 9. The economics and politics of data and its legal protection in cryptocurrencies 10. The Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Platform 11. Code-as-law in financial markets: functions, risks and governance 12. Conclusion
Biography
Joseph Lee is a Reader in law in the School of Law at the University of Manchester, UK.






