MOATcoin: Exploring Challenges and Legal Implications of Smart Contracts Through a Gamelike DApp Experiment

Distefano, Biagio; POCHER, Nadia; Zichichi, Mirko

doi:10.1145/3410699.3413798

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MOATcoin: Exploring Challenges and Legal Implications of Smart Contracts Through a Gamelike DApp Experiment

Distefano, Biagio; POCHER, Nadia; Zichichi, Mirko

2020 • In CryBlock '20: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems

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Distributed Ledger Technologies; Smart Contract; Blockchain; Governance; Tokens; Crypto-assets; dApp; Law and Technology

Abstract :

[en] In this paper we present MOATcoin, a gamelike experiment that enabled us to practically investigate the open issues related to the governance and legal facets of smart contract based decentralized applications. After presenting the MOATcoin system architecture,we first tackle the problems of decentralized governance, its limits and the shift of trust that it entails; then, we explore the possible legal implications of the given scenario and, particularly, the con-sequences of code-written contracts. Finally, we offer taxonomical remarks on the concepts of “token” and “coin” and offer an insight from a regulatory perspective

Disciplines :

Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Distefano, Biagio

POCHER, Nadia ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ; Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna ; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - KUL

Zichichi, Mirko

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

MOATcoin: Exploring Challenges and Legal Implications of Smart Contracts Through a Gamelike DApp Experiment

Publication date :

September 2020

Event name :

3rd Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (CryBlock 2020), co-located with the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2020)

Event date :

25-09-2020

Audience :

International

Main work title :

CryBlock '20: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems

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ACM Association for Computing Machinery, New York, Unknown/unspecified

ISBN/EAN :

978-1-4503-8079-9

Pages :

53--58

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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http://www.cryblock.org/program.html
https://sigmobile.org/mobicom/2020/

European Projects :

H2020 - 814177 - LAST-JD-RIoE - Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate: Rights of the Internet of Everything

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CE - Commission Européenne

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