kaal:claim:3409548-021

A fund constituted purely through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain may have no domicile, foreign or domestic, which makes jurisdiction over blockchain transactions a genuine problem for the funds that use the technology.

Source quote, verbatim

Some private investment funds may exist through the combination of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.85 Such funds may not have a domicile either foreign or domestic.

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Kaal, Financial Technology and Hedge Funds (2019), II.3 Blockchain Technology, p. 20
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3409548 · source PDF

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Kaal, Financial Technology and Hedge Funds (2019). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3409548

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funds set up entirely through Ethereum smart contracting

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Domicile-less funds and jurisdictional indeterminacyfamily: jurisdictional-conflictlaw-and-legal-systemssmart-contracts

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