Цифровые права и цифровая валюта: вопросы правовой природы и их соотношения

The article aims to define the qualifying features of digital rights and digital currency and determine their correlation with each other. It is argued that digital rights may be considered as specific second-order property rights existing only in an information system according to its rules of functioning with the special mechanism of their implementation and protection (using different informational technologies, e.g., smart contracts, digital wallets, electronic keys, etc.), that requires the establishment of new additional rules for the effective legal treatment of such rights in the present civil legislation. In order to ensure the necessary involvement of digital currency in transactions, it should be recognized as a kind of property with applying the rules intended for digital rights