Category: Legal Innovation
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Contrasting SEC ICO Enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced a settlement with cybersecurity company, Gladius Network LLC. From October through December of 2017, Gladius conducted an ICO that raised around $12.7 million in ETH. Like many other companies that conducted ICOs in recent years, Gladius did not register this offering with the SEC. However, unlike other…
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CoffeeCoin: Executing a Micro-ICO with Debt
Team Julian Bryant Shawn Cook Nick Peterson Craig Braun Background After Crypto-Susu we were ready to take on a real project. A friend had a hardward startup that made drink vending machines – mostly focused on dispensing coffee on demand and charging customers by the ounce. All of the machines are connected to the Internet…
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Protected: Learning Ethereum with CryptoZombies
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[Video] Automating Office Tasks with Zapier
Recently for a local meeting of Legal Hackers we discussed tools that were available to automate some office tasks to save time. One tool I think it pretty easy to use is Zapier. You can use Zapier to connect any two online tools that you use. For example in this series of videos, you can see…
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Project Brief: Ultimate Rules
Challenge I got my law degree from Georgetown University and I have an interest in exploring topics at the intersection of law and technology. I’m also an avid Ultimate Frisbee player. I noticed that the Ultimate rule book is structured much like a complex legal document (I guess it is one). In any given game…
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Project Brief: Susu – Building a Basic Lending Smart Contract
Team Julian Bryant Shawn Cook Nick Peterson Craig Braun Background: Introduction to Susu For our first blockchain project we wanted something that would be rather simple in terms of programming logic so the learning and challenges would all come from the blockchain-specific part of development. I proposed working on a blockchain-based Susu. A “Susu” is…
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Using Dharma Protocol for Blockchain Lending
With CoffeeCoin we wrote a basic smart contract in Ethereum to allow investors to send cryptocurrency to a smart contract and receive tokens in exchange for their money (CoffeeCoins). The smart contract could also make payment to token holders. While currently the payback amounts and timing are triggered manually, the ideal design would have the…