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,,,Initial Coin Offerings as Investment Contracts: Are Blockchain Utility Tokens Securities? presents the following source proposition: This Comment enters the ether in an endeavor to counter prevailing federal agency narratives about the role of securities laws regarding "ICOs"-introducing the reader to the most pertinent features of blockchain technology and Initial Coin Offerings, introducing the U.S. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Initial Coin Offerings are the most efficient means of financing entrepreneurial initiatives in the history of capital formation, because they minimize transaction cost and democratize finance while dis-intermediating banks. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
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