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Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide

By : Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu, Angela Kwok
Book Image

Security Tokens and Stablecoins Quick Start Guide

By: Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu, Angela Kwok

Overview of this book

The failure of initial coin offerings (ICOs) is no accident, as most ICOs do not link to a real asset and are not regulated. Realizing the shortcomings of ICOs, the blockchain community and potential investors embraced security token offerings (STOs) and stablecoins enthusiastically. In this book, we start with an overview of the blockchain technology along with its basic concepts. We introduce the concept behind STO, and cover the basic requirements for launching a STO and the relevant regulations governing its issuance. We discuss U.S. securities laws development in launching security digital tokens using blockchain technology and show some real use cases. We also explore the process of STO launches and legal considerations. We introduce popular security tokens in the current blockchain space and talk about how to develop a security token DApp, including smart contract development for ERC1404 tokens. Later, you'll learn to build frontend side functionalities to interact with smart contracts. Finally, we discuss stablecoin technical design functionalities for issuing and operating STO tokens by interacting with Ethereum smart contracts. By the end of this book, you will have learned more about STOs and gained a detailed knowledge of building relevant applications—all with the help of practical examples.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

ERC-884

The Delaware State Legislature passed Title 8 of the Delaware Code relating to the General Corporation Law on July 21, 2017. The law allows Delaware corporations to use blockchain technologies to create a tradable ERC-20 token and maintain shares issued by a Delaware corporation. ERC-884 is designed to comply with Delaware General Corporate Law. The token is an ERC-20 compatible token, and David Sag developed the token standard.

In an ERC-884 token, token owners must verify their identity. Whitelist shareholders can issue tokens. The whitelist rules are defined in Sections 219 and 220 of the act. The blockchain needs records of the information, which is specified in sections 156, 159, 217(a), and 218 of the act. While transferring the token, the smart contract function needs to comply with Article 8 of Subtitle I of Title 6. It doesn't allow partial token transfer...