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Cryptocurrencies and the New Spaces of Finance

加密货币和金融新空间

基本信息

批准号：
1853718
负责人：
Matthew Zook
金额：
$ 28.58万
依托单位：
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-05-15 至 2023-10-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1853718&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Cryptocurrencies New Spaces Finance

项目摘要

This project investigates the ways in which blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are reshaping the geographies and practices of valuation and financing within startup firms. Cryptocurrency-backed initial coin offerings (ICOs) represent a novel form of venture financing that changes the scale and scope of investment as well as encouraging firm structures that maximize hospitable regulatory locations. The outcomes of these processes have important implications for the location of economic growth and wealth formation, particularly within the finance sector. The project seeks to clarify how novel financing practices associated with cryptocurrencies impact new firm formation within the technology sector. Findings will be disseminated via a variety of publications (academic and more general and using open access publishing), the distribution of tools, code, and datasets developed for this project for gathering, cleaning and analyzing data via open-source tools and data such as GitHub, and through educational activities such as student training and classroom modules. The contribution of this research is to demonstrate how novel financing practices associated with cryptocurrencies impact new firm formation within the technology sector. The research will advance theory and understanding within economic geography by looking specifically at financialization and the ways financial institutions and logics exert power in economic systems within these new spaces of finance. The project has three specific objectives. The first is to determine the geographies of core cryptocurrency functions by asking: what factors contribute to the geographies of different cryptocurrency operations? How are locations integrated with downstream operations such as ICOs? These questions will be answered using data-scraping and geolocation methods drawn from geospatial science and digital geographies. The second objective is to assesses how cryptocurrencies' uses and networks contribute to value. This will be addressed by using social network analysis, machine learning, natural language processing, and deep neural nets from computational sociology and computer science to ask: how do networks of cryptocurrencies differ between use types? How does network interaction contribute to value? The third objective focuses on how cryptocurrencies affect financing and entrepreneurial practices within tech-based startups. The investigator will use interviews to gather data to answer: What are the motivations of investors/entrepreneurs in ICOs? and What additional functions are folded into the financing process? Together these objectives will fundamentally advance basic knowledge in economic geography.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目研究了基于区块链的加密货币如何重塑初创公司内估值和融资的地域和实践。加密货币支持的首次代币发行（ICO）代表了一种新颖的风险融资形式，它改变了投资的规模和范围，并鼓励最大限度地提高监管地点的公司结构。这些过程的结果对经济增长和财富形成的地点具有重要影响，特别是在金融部门。该项目旨在阐明与加密货币相关的新颖融资实践如何影响技术领域新公司的形成。研究结果将通过各种出版物（学术出版物和更一般的出版物，使用开放获取出版）、分发为此项目开发的工具、代码和数据集来传播，以便通过开源工具和数据（例如 GitHub）以及学生培训和课堂模块等教育活动来收集、清理和分析数据。这项研究的贡献是展示与加密货币相关的新颖融资实践如何影响技术领域内新公司的形成。该研究将通过专门研究金融化以及金融机构和逻辑在这些新金融空间内的经济系统中发挥权力的方式，推进经济地理学的理论和理解。该项目有三个具体目标。首先是通过询问以下问题来确定核心加密货币功能的地理位置：哪些因素影响了不同加密货币操作的地理位置？地点如何与 ICO 等下游业务整合？这些问题将通过地理空间科学和数字地理学中的数据抓取和地理定位方法来回答。第二个目标是评估加密货币的用途和网络如何贡献价值。这将通过使用社交网络分析、机器学习、自然语言处理以及计算社会学和计算机科学的深度神经网络来解决：加密货币网络在不同使用类型之间有何不同？网络交互如何贡献价值？第三个目标侧重于加密货币如何影响科技初创企业的融资和创业实践。调查员将通过访谈收集数据来回答：投资者/企业家参与 ICO 的动机是什么？融资流程中还包含哪些附加功能？这些目标将从根本上推进经济地理学的基础知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。