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   "text": "The most damaging effect of legal harmonization is that it eradicates outliers, meaning the unconventional approaches that actually drive technological and legal innovation.",
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   "text": "Conflict of laws rules should instead be used as a vehicle for implementing innovative national legal systems that utilize decentralized governance models and respect the autonomy of blockchain.",
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   "text": "Harmonizing substantive law would suppress jurisdictional diversity by imposing a one size fits all model that ignores cultural, economic, and technological differences, thereby reducing the resilience of global digital asset ecosystems.",
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   "text": "Allowing jurisdictions to tailor smart contract requirements to local statutory frameworks while adhering to a baseline of ethical principles preserves the innovative potential of blockchain by avoiding the homogenizing effects of harmonized legal standards.",
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