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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title To Token or not to Token: Tools for Understanding Blockchain Tokens
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Luis Oliveira
  • Liudmila Zavolokina
  • Ingrid Bauer
  • Gerhard Schwabe
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Event Title International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS 2018)
Event Type conference
Event Location San Francisco, USA
Event Start Date December 12 - 2018
Event End Date December 16 - 2018
Place of Publication San Francisco, USA
Publisher ICIS
Abstract Text The growing usage of tokens in real-world blockchain projects – mostly visible in ICOs – has unveiled the need to understand what blockchain tokens in fact represent and how they relate to their underlying business model. Previous research has contributed to this gap but often lacks a comprehensive understanding of tokens and their design as well as of the growing and rapidly-changing complexity in token landscape. This has crucial implications for assessing tokens' value and utility. Applying a structured, scientific approach towards blockchain tokens, we provide a comprehensive token classification and a decision-aid on token design. This is based on a literature review and an empirical study to cover this research gap. Our work offers a novel contribution in an emerging field within the Blockchain research domain and proposes structured analytical tools which can be used by both practitioners and researchers.
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