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   "text": "Only a jurisdiction that grants a DAO limited liability as an entity and accepts its independent status without requiring representation can be truly favorable to DAO concepts.",
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   "text": "DAOs cannot exist and persist without ever increasing degrees of decentralization, so DAO legal designs must first and foremost supplement the internal decentralization the DAO has achieved.",
   "abstract": "DAOs cannot exist and persist without ever increasing degrees of decentralization. Therefore, first and foremost, DAO legal designs need to supplement the internal decentralization accomplished by the DAO.",
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   "text": "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.",
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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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