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Cryptoassets are choses in action
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This article discusses three key recent cases from Singapore, England and Australia: ByBit FinTech Ltd v Ho Kai Xin [2023] SGHC 199; D’Aloia v Persons Unknown [2024] EWHC 2342; and Re Blockchain Tech Pty Ltd [2024] VSC 690 and argues that it is not merely possible to see cryptoassets as choses in action, but analytically preferable. It explores the analytical advantages of this view.
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