【Author】
Malinova, Katya; Park, Andreas
【Source】MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
【Abstract】In a token offering, investors fund a venture in exchange for tokens that grant rights to future economic output. To many financial industry insiders, tokens have no intrinsic merit and exist only as a way to evade regulations. We demonstrate that generic revenue-based token contracts are indeed economically inferior to equity and lead to over or underproduction. However, an optimally designed token contract, which is a combination of an output presale and an incremental revenue-sharing agreement, yields the same payoffs as equity and debt. Moreover, with entrepreneurial moral hazard, tokens can finance a strictly larger set of ventures than equity.
【Keywords】blockchain; tokens; decentralized finance; initial coin offerings
【文献类型】Article; Early Access
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