# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6491

**Affirmed position.** Smart contract disputes and public policy in the ASEAN+6 region presents the following source proposition: Smart contracts provide some benefits, such as better facilitation for contracting parties to monitor performance of their obligation and reducing the cost spent monitoring the contract. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that National courts and national law cannot be excluded from smart contract disputes, because almost all legal systems grant contracting parties an emergency or exorbitant jurisdiction whenever a party can show it would otherwise have no forum in which to bring its action. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-31

**Holds when.**

- The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
- External evidence level: abstract indexed.
- Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
- Primary mapping confidence: 0.3549.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Smart contract disputes and public policy in the ASEAN+6 region: https://doi.org/10.38044/2686-9136-2022-3-4-32-70

**Extends.** kaal:claim:5554218-004: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5554218-004

**Scholarly basis.** 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

**Source PDF sha256.** `55738b4035a91b70aa2ddaa127552fe4b373ec641afee2719fbdcabebdcbea44`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** moderate-confidence claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3549  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, smart-contracts, historical-response, scholarly-literature, openalex

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0004 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.