Hackathon for blockchain tokens, ICOs, and legal frameworks

2017 has seen numerous successful blockchain token raises (aka initial coin offerings or ICOs). Token raises are technically and legally challenging. Join us to hack on the technical and legal frameworks for token raises.

We will work on prototyping code, documents, and designs. Bring a laptop, stickies, a sketch pad, or other materials you like to prototype with.

This event is for designers, lawyers, developers, people building blockchain based organizations, and folks new to the space who want to learn.

Schedule

10am - arrive and mingle
10:30am - 7 min lightning talks to spark collaboration ideas
11:15am - break into groups to hack smart contracts, draft legal frameworks, and co-author articles
5:30pm - share what we made
6:00pm - done, informal dinner hangouts encouraged

Lightning Talks

• Currency Design Principles with Art Brock From Holochain
• Cyber Organizations (cyb-orgs) with Vienna Rae L. economicspace.agency
• Boid social computer project with Rajesh Trivedi (boid.com)

Project Groups

• Initial Token Launch and ICO design group(s) to design incentives and review the regulatory landscape
• Open Source token smart contract development (e.g. ERC20 tokens)
• Asset backed token legal and incentive design working group
• Mapping the blockchain crowdfunding legal landscape with Tony Lai, Legal.io
• More project groups formed at the event from your interests, or get in touch with Tony and Noah in advance

Preparation

If you are designing a token, before the event you may want to do these two things to prepare for the event.

1. Go through the token canvas, bring your token canvas a long with you we'd love to see it:
   https://media.comakery.com/introducing-the-token-canvas-beta-51389a9b82dd (https://media.comakery.com/introducing-the-token-canvas-beta-51389a9b82dd)
2. Work through the blockchain securities law framework checklist:
   https://www.coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf (https://www.coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf)

There is a google spreadsheet to analyze if your token is likely to be regulated as a security:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QxOV2dgxO3C_TyVE0-41ZwLlzPmB-EE1NNshJGuedCU/edit#gid=0 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QxOV2dgxO3C_TyVE0-41ZwLlzPmB-EE1NNshJGuedCU/edit#gid=0)