Smart Contracts

4 posts

Smart contracts posess a radical potential to transform the way companies and individuals interact. If law is code, and code can can be written such as to automatically execute transactions and operations on the blockchain, a new frontier of economic and social organisation is reached. Read here to learn more about smart contracts

Part I - Smart contracts as the natural evolution of analog contracts: The case for legal equivalence between offchain companies and blockchain-native organizations

In this second post, we examine how onchain companies can achieve legal equivalence with offchain registered ones. Companies are an invention, and as inventions go, they arguably rank equally with the printing press, the shipping container, and the micro-processor in how they impacted human progress. The key breakthrough lies in

12 min read

Dumb vs. smart contracts: How blockchains could have prevented a court battle between Brad and Angelina over a French vineyard

Yesterday's Hollywood dream couple is in court (again) after Angelina allegedly sold her share in a French vineyard without Brad's consent. If only they had coded their agreement on blockchain.

15 min read

Be In On The Deal: A Smart Contract that Automates Token Pre-Sales

In this more technical post, we share how we designed our smart contract that automates the bookbuilding process of our token pre-sale.

3 min read

PART III. A New Smart Contract Solution to Building a Pre-Order Book and Automating Token Issuance

In this third part, we take a closer look at the smart contract that will help build our pre-order book and how its design reduces regulatory risk.

6 min read

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