The public media and politicians regularly debate the potential for hedge funds to contribute to systemic risk in financial markets. Because the hedge fund industry experienced substantial growth over the past two decades, concerns about hedge funds' systemic risk have increased and regulators...

The hedge fund industry in the United States evolved from a niche market participant in the early 1950s to a major industry operating in international financial markets. Hedge funds in the United States were originally privately-held, privately-managed investment funds, unregistered and exempt...

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have the potential to upgrade finance. This paper evaluates the design of and system requirements for a decentralized cryptocurrency venture capital investment club that is operating as a DAO (DAOIC). The design of the proposed DAOIC enables...

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) enable unprecedented technology-driven decentralized decision-making tools, transparent governance, and direct participation of stakeholders, making them highly adaptable to the evolving digital age.DAOs disrupt established centralized legacy models...

Disruptive innovation creates increasing regulatory challenges. Venture capital’s assessment of innovative products, businesses, and initiatives generates highly relevant institution -- and industry -- specific decentralized information on innovation trends. Using a dataset comprising over...

Corporations and other forms of business organizations can be supplemented with blockchain-based agency constructs. Blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) expand the definition of the firm. On-chain DAO governance enables dynamic regulatory features that facilitate...

Centralized mechanical turk solutions are subject to significant shortcomings. Decentralized crypto solutions can optimize the mechanical turk market. Autonomous decentralized protocols for validating domain specific reputation of workers that perform tasks allow micro task workers to stake...

This article provides an overview of the evolving ICO market. It evaluates hand-selected data for the top 25 ICO jurisdictions by market capitalization. The author codes the regulatory responses of the top 25 ICO jurisdictions and provides a comparative analysis of their respective regulatory...

We examine the relationship between innovation as measured by annual utility patents granted and two datasets for legislation: (1) the U.S. Code and (2) the Code of Federal Regulations from 1984 to 2015. We show that the historical relationship between innovation and legislation has changed,...

Most of the applications and uses of digital assets are improved and expanded with well-functioning and well-governed DAOs. The article evaluates the technical and internal governance solutions promulgated by DAO projects. Particular emphasis is placed on the duality of feedback effects between...