Agreement: The Legal Recognition and Regulation of Digital Assets

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-098 · 2026-08-08

The Legal Recognition and Regulation of Digital Assets links the cross-border and decentralized character of digital assets to legal uncertainty, regulatory fragmentation, and enforcement difficulty. This independently corresponds to Kaal's cross-jurisdictional uncertainty mechanism. It does not prove regulatory arbitrage or establish that uniform law is the appropriate remedy.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

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: substantively reviewed abstract-level agreement.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source attributes legal uncertainty, regulatory fragmentation, and enforcement difficulty to the intangible, decentralized, cross-border character of digital assets. This independently corresponds to Kaal's cross-jurisdictional uncertainty mechanism, without proving regulatory arbitrage or endorsing a particular harmonization model.

Current debate

The Legal Recognition and Regulation of Digital Assets

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:5554218-027
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 and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level agreement
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

regulatory-failure historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0011-remainder-oldest-0050-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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