ILO #008: What Happens on a Smart Contract...

Published: Oct. 19, 2018, 6 p.m.

This week: CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz wants smart contract authors to know they can be held liable for predictive code; Civil fails to reach its ICO soft-cap, prompting a refund to investors; and Tether has a roller coaster of a week, triggering a rise in alternative stablecoins. Finally, we\u2019ll take an in-depth look at Lisk, the nascent distributed app platform built on JavaScript.