Crypto and Digital Assets: Law and Regulation

Crypto and digital assets include everything from Bitcoin to bonds to Bored Apes to buildings. They are both a new asset class and a means of digitalisation of traditional financial markets. They are also the currency of the next stage of the internet. In this unique and definitive new book, Charles Kerrigan and a range of expert contributors analyse the law on crypto and digital assets in an integrated way that provides strong guidance and all the answers that practitioners working in this new (and difficult) area of the law need to know.

Crypto and Digital Assets Law and Regulation provides a thorough yet concise explanation of legal fundamentals such as cryptoasset regulation in the UK, Europe and the USA, and the legal principles relating to block chain and distributed ledger technologies. It clearly explains key concepts such as smart contracts, payments, tokenisation, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, digital asset exchanges, wallets, lending transactions, security interests, decentralised finance, yield, NFTs, blockchain and crypto analytics, fundraising, venture capital investment, taxation, personal data and the blockchain, intellectual property, outsourcing, disputes and restructuring and insolvency.

table of content

Foreword

Preface

 

1. General introduction to crypto and digital assets

 

2. Technical introduction to crypto and digital assets

 

3. Crypto and digital assets markets

 

4. Legal principles relating to blockchain and distributed ledger technologies: a taxonomy

 

5. Private law considerations relating to blockchain systems

 

6. Smart contracts

 

7. Cryptoasset Regulation in the United Kingdom

 

8. Risks relating to crypto and digital assets

 

9. Payments

 

10. Tokenisation

 

11. Central Bank Digital Currencies

 

12. Stablecoins

 

13. Digital Asset Exchanges

 

14. Wallets

 

15. Lending transactions

 

16. Security interests and Collateral

 

17. Derivatives

 

18. Custody, Control & Intermediated Holding Services for Crypto-Tokens

 

19. DeFi, Decentralised Finance

 

20. Yield

 

21. NFTs

 

22. Metaverse and Web3

 

23. Decentralised Infrastructure and Interoperability Facilitating DeFi

 

24. Blockchain and Crypto Analytics

 

25. Fundraising

 

26. Venture Capital investment

 

27. Warranties in corporate transaction involving tokens or blockchains

 

28. US Regulation of Crypto and Digital Assets

 

29. European Regulation of Crypto and Digital Assets –

Part 1: Frameworks and Competition Laws

 

30. European Regulation of Crypto and Digital Assets –

Part 2: Markets in Crypto-Asset Regulation (MiCAR)

 

31. Taxation

 

32. Personal Data and the Blockchain

 

33. Intellectual Property

 

34. Outsourcing

 

35. Disputes

 

36. Restructuring and Insolvency

 

37. Trade bodies

Index