# kaal:claim:3117224-008

**Claim.** ICO promoters can alter the smart contract to change the sales rules mid-course during the ICO.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Source quote.**

> Promoters can also change the smart contract to change ICO sales rules mid-course during the ICO.

**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

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**Failure mode.** mid-offering-rule-change  (family: investor-protection-gap)

**Topics.** smart-contracts, economics

**Keywords.** smart-contracts, promoters, market-abuse, investor-protection

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3606663-013
- supports: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3067615-038

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