# kaal:claim:3409548-021

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- funds set up entirely through Ethereum smart contracting

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Kaal, *Financial Technology and Hedge Funds* (2019), II.3 Blockchain Technology, page 20

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

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**Failure mode.** Domicile-less funds and jurisdictional indeterminacy  (family: jurisdictional-conflict)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, smart-contracts

**Keywords.** jurisdiction, domicile, ethereum, smart-contracts, regulation

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2998033-011

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