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   "text": "Cold wallets typically lack the multisig feature that is common in hot storage, so the single employee acting as agent for a corporation may be the only access point to the corporate digital assets.",
   "abstract": "Accordingly, the person who acts as an agent to a corporation who holds the assets on behalf of the company may be the only access point to the corporate assets.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Hayley Howe, Custody of Digital Assets (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3936876",
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   "text": "Multi-signature wallets and a combination of hot and cold storage solutions are the advisable custody design for digital assets.",
   "abstract": "Multi-signature wallets and a combination of hot and cold storage solutions are advisable.",
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   "text": "Any exercise of the multisig endowment wallet keys ultimately depends on a vote in the assembly of the DAO association that serves as legal wrapper, so a donor holding one key among many is involved in endowment payment decisions without controlling them.",
   "abstract": "The exercise of the multisig wallet keys will ultimately always depend on a CHARITYxDAO vote in the assembly of the CHARITYxDAO association (the legal wrapper – if chosen to be a Swiss Association). As a multisig key holder, the donor will be involved in multisig endowment payment",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021",
   "datePublished": "2021",
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   "text": "DAO governance over token launch wallets can assure that no single individual exercises rights over the token launch wallet and becomes a single point of failure or abuse.",
   "abstract": "DAO governance over token launch wallets can assure that no single individual exercises rights over the token launch wallet and becomes a single point of failure/abuse.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Fair Token Launch (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4015908",
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