Issue #73
Paper of the Week:
Paper Title: Law and regulation for a crypto-market: perpetuation or innovation?
TLDR:
This paper will assess the functions and operation of some crypto-assets that are either already on the market or have been proposed, by looking at attempts to regulate them and discussing regulatory attitudes and policy directions.
The main crypto-assets to be analysed against both laws and regulations include: exchange tokens (payment tokens), security tokens (asset tokens), utility tokens, fund tokens, commodity tokens, title tokens, and hybrid tokens.
There are also variations within a single token class. For instance, while share tokens and debt tokens are subsets of security tokens, they should not be treated in the same way, using the same rules, in contexts such as issuance or insolvency.
The overall aim is to discover whether legal taxonomy and regulatory intervention can help in the construction of the emerging crypto-asset market with the goal of creating a boundary-free virtual Crypto-Republic.
Authors: Joseph Lee*,
Affiliations: * University of Exeter.
Security:
No papers.
Privacy:
1. Paper Title: Mimblewimble Non-Interactive Transaction Scheme.
Summary: A new transaction scheme for Mimblewimble protocol, which is non-interactive so as to overcome its major weakness.
Authors: Gary Yu*,
Affiliations: * Gotts.
Scalability:
No papers.
Proofs:
1. Paper Title: Lunar: a Toolbox for More Efficient Universal and Updatable zkSNARKs and Commit-and-Prove Extensions.
Summary: A family of new preprocessing zkSNARKs in the universal and updatable SRS model that have constant-size proofs and that improve on previous work in terms of proof size and running time of the prover.
Authors: Matteo Campanelli*, Antonio Faonio†, Dario Fiore*, Anaïs Querol*‡, and Hadrián Rodríguez*,
Affiliations: * IMDEA Software Institute, † EURECOM, and ‡ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Consensus:
No papers.
Tokenomics:
1. Paper Title: Incentives in Blockchain Design and Applications.
Summary: This chapter considers the incentives facing network participants in light of the fundamental problem of signal verification.
Authors: Cameron Harwick*,
Affiliations: * SUNY College at Brockport.
2. Paper Title: Fintech and International Financial Regulation.
Summary: This Article shows that fintech exacerbates the difficulties of standard setting in international financial regulation.
Authors: Yesha Yadav*,
Affiliations: * Vanderbilt University.
Conferences, Journals, & CFPs:
September 17-18 - Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (CBT’2020) (United Kingdom)
October 21-23 - The second ACM conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT’20) (New York City)
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