# kaal:claim:5554218-013

**Claim.** A constructive balance to the inherent and unavoidable centralized character of national law cannot be achieved by imposing uniform legal standards on digital assets, because uniformity privileges the centralist features of law over the decentralized, permissionless nature of blockchain.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- cross-jurisdictional governance of digital assets
- permissionless blockchain systems

**Source quote.**

> We argue that a constructive balance to the inherent and unavoidable centralized characteristics of national law cannot be found in imposing uniform legal standards on digital assets as this favors the centralist features of law to the decentralized, permissionless nature of blockchain.

**From.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, *Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era* (2025), 2.3.3 Preserving Decentralized Innovation in Digital Asset Governance, page 12

**Cite as.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218

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**Failure mode.** Uniform standards favor centralization  (family: harmonization-and-standardization-failure)

**Topics.** decentralization, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** decentralization, uniform-standards, national-law, digital-assets, legal-design

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