Initial Coin Offerings and the Pecking Order

Summary:
On Alphaville, Izabella Kaminska comments on the pecking order induced by initial coin offerings (ICOs). All of this raises an important point about actual shareholder rights within these structures. Say a legally-incorporated institution with actual shareholders dishes out an uncapped amount of tokens promising a share of revenues or dividends via the ICO process. Do shareholders’ rights to those revenue/dividends trump rights of the token holders? And if so, how does that square with the way risk is distributed through these systems? As Unseth notes, more often than not, it’s the token holders taking the bulk of the early concept risk, yet the inferiority of their ranking relative to shareholders kind of sees the latter receiving a free lunch.

Topics:
Dirk Niepelt considers the following as important: Blockchain, Corporate Finance, Corporate governance, Digital money, Initial coin offering, Notes, Pecking order, Shareholder

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