# kaal:claim:3117224-007

**Claim.** The absence of mandatory disclosure requirements for ICOs leads many promoters to make irregular or no disclosures about the platform over time, producing a significant lack of transparency in the ICO market.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Moreover, the lack of mandatory disclosures for ICOs leads many promoters to make irregular or no disclosures about the platform as time passes, leading to a significant lack of transparency in the ICO market.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Initial Coin Offerings The Top 25 Jurisdictions and Their Comparative Regulatory Responses* (2018), II. Regulatory Concerns, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Initial Coin Offerings The Top 25 Jurisdictions and Their Comparative Regulatory Responses (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3117224

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `83e9ccb9219a217d9fcfc5c098b897229ee7cf85623bee3ae22d2e986548466b` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202018%20-%20Initial%20Coin%20Offerings%20The%20Top%2025%20Jurisdictions%20and%20Their%20Comparative%20Regulatory%20Responses.pdf

**Failure mode.** disclosure-vacuum  (family: disclosure-ineffectiveness)

**Topics.** disclosure, securities-law, tokenomics

**Keywords.** disclosure, transparency, initial-coin-offerings, investor-protection

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3606663-012

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the claim. Its sha256 is the content hash used for attestation.