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.

Contents:

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

Keywords:
crypto regulation, digital assets, blockchain law, cryptocurrency, NFTs, DeFi, smart contracts, stablecoins, tokenization, digital asset exchanges

Target Audience:
Legal practitioners, financial regulators, compliance officers, crypto investors, fintech professionals, blockchain developers, financial lawyers, digital asset consultants, business executives, venture capitalists

Genre:
Law, finance, technology, cryptocurrency, business, blockchain, investment, fintech, digital economy, regulatory frameworks