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Digital assets
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying digital-assets. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 2959730-016 : The author stipulates that a blockchain is a shared digital ledger or database that maintains a continuously growing list of transactions among participating parties regarding digital assets, describe
- 2998033-014 : Private investment funds operating solely on the Melon protocol are less likely to be required to register as a commodity pool operator or commodity trading advisor, because the CFTC has not labelled
- 3405401-002 : Narrowly construed, a digital asset is instantiated through computer code and depends on consensus computer algorithms to trigger and validate any transaction in that asset; broadly construed, digital
- 3406323-003 : Decentralized commerce is defined as the global exchange of financial instruments, goods, and services via emerging decentralized technologies.
- 3409548-030 : Crypto hedge funds deliver diversification by giving investors exposure to a wide range of digital currencies without the risk of investing in either the underlying organization behind a protocol or t
- 3409548-031 : The shift of the digital asset market back from the ICO model to the venture model since late 2017 has reduced, not increased, diversification for investors.
- 3606663-001 : Equity funding and token funding are substitutes: because equity investment in a blockchain startup makes issuing a digital currency both less likely and less necessary as a funding source, a market s
- 3606663-004 : The article stipulates a broad definition of digital assets covering all virtual and electronic assets regardless of how regulators name or categorize them, including cryptocurrencies, security tokens
- 3606663-014 : Regulatory uncertainty is curtailing the growth of the digital asset industry because investor classes across the spectrum, from retail investors to the largest institutions, are hesitant to participa
- 3606663-016 : Immature markets such as the market for digital assets in 2020 often cannot attract the institutional investors and venture capitalists who have sufficient operating experience in that market, which i
- 3606663-017 : Early stage investing in digital assets is a relationships business, and without access to a network of core industry expertise early stage investments in the digital asset industry are rarely success
- 3606663-019 : Because the digital asset market has been so hype driven, technical experience has not added significantly to overall market development and maturity, leaving many top projects in 2020 still afflicted
- 3652481-012 : Regulatory uncertainty is holding back both the development of DAOs and the optimization potential DAOs offer for digital assets.
- 3799320-007 : Regulatory uncertainty is holding back both the development of DAOs and the potential of DAOs to optimize digital assets.
- 3808859-030 : Tokenization of assets is the issuance of a digital asset that forms the digital representation of an existing real-world asset, analogous to securitization in that it converts liquid or illiquid real
- 3808873-006 : The profit driven influx into the digital asset space brought rampant fraud that created a chasm between the decentralized asset space and mainstream investors, and lacking regulatory certainty and re
- 3808873-023 : Government controlled regulation of the evolving digital asset space was perhaps the leading decentralization neutralizer of the early 2020s, as regulators sought to fit decentralized solutions into e
- 3808873-034 : Because basic standards for the governance of digital assets were still missing at the beginning of the 2020s, the digital asset market stagnated and decentralized finance remained in its infancy; wit
- 3936876-001 : Fully compliant legal custody solutions for digital assets increase legal certainty and mainstream investor confidence, and that increased confidence in turn builds markets in digital assets.
- 3936876-004 : The majority of digital asset custody providers and digital asset exchanges require customers to surrender ownership of their digital assets as a precondition for access and trading.
- 3936876-034 : Credit risk is low in digital asset transactions because the transactions are made instantaneously, which removes the counterparty performance window that generates credit risk in traditional custody.
- 3949098-015 : Only one in one hundred token opportunities returns a large multiple such as 100x, 30x or 10x, which Kaal lists as a core risk factor for running a DAO investment club.
- 3949098-016 : Without access to a network of core expertise, early stage investments in the digital asset industry are rarely successful.
- 3949098-017 : Because the cryptocurrency market has been hype driven, technical experience has not added significantly to overall market development and maturity.
- 3962614-001 : The rapid growth of digital asset startups into billion dollar businesses with little or no venture capital funding demonstrates that the traditional venture capital model alone was not enough to meet
- 3962614-012 : Traditional VCs struggle in the digital asset market because of that market's significant volatility and because they lack expertise in a market still dominated by several key specialized players.
- 3962614-013 : Traditional VCs often cannot effectively compete with the ever increasing array of decentralized token offering avenues.
- 3962614-014 : Because traditional VCs need to defend their investment choices to their own investors, they are often reluctant to invest in digital asset startups that have little history or sales records.
- 4021599-013 : Under the Howey framework the U.S. Supreme Court supplies the investment contract analysis that determines whether a digital asset carries the characteristics of a typical security.
- 4021599-028 : The term securities token is fairly well defined as of 2022, and additional regulatory guidance will continue to delineate its central features and distinguishing characteristics.
- 4033886-001 : Valuation metrics developed for legacy assets apply only in a limited way to digital assets, so importing them wholesale produces unreliable digital asset valuations.
- 4033886-002 : Digital asset valuation uncertainty is produced by the combination of an immature digital asset market and a valuation infrastructure, legal, accounting, finance, technology, and back office, that was
- 4033886-003 : Although many traditional assets also resist full assessment, the absence of established pricing standards for digital assets makes the loss of valuation accuracy for financial reporting worse than in
- 4033886-004 : The accounting definition of fair value may not apply to digital assets, with the consequence that correct valuation of digital assets for financial reporting purposes may be impossible.
- 4033886-006 : Digital asset exchanges have no closing prices, so digital asset managers cannot rely on the closing price convention that underpins traditional valuation practice.
- 4033886-007 : Because digital asset valuation methodologies vary significantly, the tradeoffs among them leave digital asset managers with meaningful valuation discretion.
- 4033886-009 : The absence of digital asset valuation standards generates uncertainty and confusion for both investors and managers, and the industry would be better off with uniform standards.
- 4033886-020 : DCF currency translation breaks down for digital assets: no set discount rate or currency exchange forward curve exists for them, because they are not traded in exchange markets where closing prices a
- 4033886-021 : Principal to principal markets are generally not considered observable because little information about their transactions is publicly available, which pushes assets priced there out of the observable
- 4033886-027 : Digital assets become less liquid precisely when large amounts are moved at once, because a large sell order floods the exchange and drives the price down.
- 4033886-030 : Market liquidity in digital assets is not only about exchanging crypto for fiat: allowing crypto to be used as a means of transacting for any good or service may itself increase market liquidity.
- 4033886-031 : Because digital asset exchanges perform both the traditional broker dealer function and the custody function, they face uncertainties and increased liability that traditional exchanges, which never to
- 4033886-033 : The stablecoin exists as a response to digital asset price volatility: it is pegged to the value of an external asset, frequently a fiat currency.
- 4033886-034 : Digital assets resemble high growth companies for valuation purposes, so scenario planning is essential and business leaders must reason backward from the future rather than forward from the present,
- 4033886-036 : DCF appears at first glance unsuited to digital asset valuation because valuation is framed as pricing a token at a point in time, but it becomes applicable where networks return cash flows to token h
- 4033886-040 : Uniform digital asset valuation standards can only evolve over time as the market evolves, because standard setting requires common core practices, and those practices are only slowly emerging.
- 4734750-014 : Legacy code reviews can last weeks or months, and those delays can force complete rewrites of contracts because the underlying protocol may have upgraded core libraries while the review was still runn
- 5554218-010 : The most damaging effect of legal harmonization is that it eradicates outliers, meaning the unconventional approaches that actually drive technological and legal innovation.
- 5554218-011 : Harmonized standards and innovative dispute resolution mechanisms are only partial answers, because they cannot keep pace with the continuously evolving technical requirements of digital assets and sm
- 5554218-012 : The authors contest the prevailing scholarly proposition that harmonized conflict of laws principles are necessary to govern digital assets across common and civil law jurisdictions, arguing that this
- 5554218-013 : A constructive balance to the inherent and unavoidable centralized character of national law cannot be achieved by imposing uniform legal standards on digital assets, because uniformity privileges the
- 5554218-015 : Harmonizing substantive law would suppress jurisdictional diversity by imposing a one size fits all model that ignores cultural, economic, and technological differences, thereby reducing the resilienc