Gravel & Shea Attorney Catherine Burke recently gave two presentations on blockchain law at The Tax and Estate Planning Forum in San Diego, California. In an overview seminar, Catherine focused on understanding the technology itself as well as the new corporate structure, a blockchain-based limited […]
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Blockchain Companies Should Be Banging Down the BBLLC Doors
Oliver Goodenough and Katie Taylor Many blockchain pioneers are utopians and libertarians. Stephen Tual, one of the developers of the infamous blockchain investment fund The Dao, has argued that blockchain activities are not bound by laws and regulations but rather by “the code.” The idea […]
dOrg Launches First Limited Liability DAO
dOrg, a blockchain development cooperative, announced today that it is now the first legally established Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) under United States law. After deploying its DAO to the Ethereum blockchain, dOrg formed a Blockchain-Based Limited Liability Company (BBLLC) in Vermont, dOrg LLC. By linking […]
Why Blockchain Governance Matters
by Oliver Goodenough In 2016, developers of Ethereum, one of the most well-known blockchain technologies, made history by crowdfunding $150 million — the largest crowdfunded figure ever, and completely in Ether — for the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). They were then promptly hacked. A predator […]