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In this Part IV, we focus on a major offshore trust stack, the so-called VISTA trust in the British Virgin Islands. In our conclusion, we share some of the inside on why, even if you are not a US resident, a US trust may be a better option for you than an offshore trust.

In this third part, we discuss some common use cases for trusts with both US and non-US assets, with a focus on Web3 users. For each use case, we adapted the structure diagram we used in Part I and populated it with example assets.

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In this first part, we explain the basic concept of a trust and share a typical trust stack and the various parties and entities involved.

In this issue of The Otonomist, we announce some changes to how we plan to blog going forward and give you un update on what we have done over the month of September on Otonomos' development side. FROM HAN 🎶 Ch ch ch ch Changes 🎶🎶 Over the last years, I&

On this last day of August and after a break in July, we resume our regular publishing schedule of The Otonomist, our monthly missive with free and premium content to help readers build a business on blockchain and invest in crypto. We start with a contribution on a new legal

The strange landscape of DAO legal structures recently acquired a permutation of the DAO LLC: the Decentralized Unincorporated Non-Profit Association or DUNA. In what follows, we're doing a deep dive and weigh its pros and contras. The State of Entitylessness DAOs generally either do not make use of

On this last day of June, we post about whether to use a fund setup if you only trade proprietary capital, what to ask yourself when you choose a DAO for your project, and start with a post on DeSci. Finally we talk about the role of formation agents. Have

DAOs are major elements of the Web3 world. As funding tools and mechanisms for decentralised collaboration and consensus, they highlight the some of the most exciting possibilities of our industry. If, like us, you are interested in legal structures, the rise of DAOs is a fascinating challenge to and reworking