News: ICO: withdrawals of funds into fiat

In the absence of a unified approach to the legal nature of ICO, many lawyerswith regard to initial offering of tokensoften refer to the concept of "offering".

At the same time, this kind of interpretation of the issue under consideration predetermines emergence of significant number of difficulties in law enforcement practice.

Given the fact that the transfer of tokens is often associated with the distribution of profits, discounts, stock speculations and a number of other counter-measures and counteractions, state bodies reasonably perceive such transactions as feigned.

Initial offering of cryptoassets can also be considered in the context of a contract for the performance of scientificresearchor design and experimental or process/technological operations. Such a comparison is due to the nature of most blockchain projects, which are invariably associated with innovative solutions and offer various kinds of technological developments.

The foregoing interpretation of ICO allows to ensure minimal risks for investors when withdrawing cryptocurrency into fiat money. Moreover, investors receive actual means of control over their own funds at each of the stages of project promotion.

Securing the rights of investors, in turn, occurs due to the conclusion of a contract between a natural person that is the issuer of tokens and a legal entity, which carries out scientific research, development and technological works in the future. One of the key conditions of such contracts is a specific indication of the payment terms for each of the stages of the project.

Cash equivalents

The interpretation of the above provisions allows to conclude that various discounts and bonuses may fall under the notion of "quasi-money".

A number of IT specialists upon analyzing the legal nature of initial offering of tokens apply the scheme of operation of WebMoney as the basis. Tokens, in this case, are considered as a variety of certificates that certify the owner's right to a tangible asset, by which the tokenis secured.

This approach greatly facilitates the turnover of the underlying asset.

Moreover, there is a point of viewin the IT sphere that fiat funds received by the issuer of tokens from investors under a loan agreement can be contributed to the statutory fund of the company with subsequent conclusion of an agreement ofassignment from an individual to a legal entity for repayment of the original loan agreement.

Considerable number of disputes causes the permissibility of setting up tokens on the company's balance sheet as property or property right.