Gravel & Shea Attorney Catherine Burke recently gave two presentations on blockchain law at The Tax and Estate Planning Forum in San Diego, California. In an overview seminar, Catherine focused on understanding the technology itself as well as the new corporate structure, a blockchain-based limited liability company (BBLLC), recently created by Vermont’s legislature. Catherine later…
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Oliver Goodenough and Katie Taylor Many blockchain pioneers are utopians and libertarians. Stephen Tual, one of the developers of the infamous blockchain investment fund The Dao, has argued that blockchain activities are not bound by laws and regulations but rather by “the code.” The idea has its appeal. After all, the United States legal system…
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Captive Review reports on the activities of a blockchain captive insurance working group formed by the Distributed Ledger Governance Association (DLGA), with members drawn from the Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA)
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dOrg, a blockchain development cooperative, announced today that it is now the first legally established Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) under United States law. After deploying its DAO to the Ethereum blockchain, dOrg formed a Blockchain-Based Limited Liability Company (BBLLC) in Vermont, dOrg LLC. By linking the DAO to this BBLLC, the DAO has official legal…
