Recently a small conference called “Token Summit” brought together the growing community of developers that are interested in the red hot area of tokenized crowdfunding. Through the new mechanism, millions of dollars are pouring into projects from the excited cryptocurrency community. This promising new model could hold the key to funding public goods such as open blockchain networks, but raises significant regulatory questions that must be answered first.
On the first day of the conference, Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh led a panel entitled, “Is Grey the New Normal in Legal & Compliance?” that called attention to the regulatory concerns for this fundraising model. The panel of legal experts shared their views on how regulators might evaluate a token sale project and laid out some of different approaches to designing and implementing a sale in a way that properly navigates those concerns
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You can watch the full panel below: