Author: Wesley Thysse

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Vattelum Introduces a New Paradigm: Law-Creation on the Blockchain

In June 2026, the Vattelum project launched through Delaw Labs.

Vattelum is an open-source tool for law creation on the blockchain.

It is the culmination of the research I started here in 2017 and published on this blog.

Vattelum Highlights

  • Turn smart contracts into law, compiling PDF printable and enforceable contracts…
  • Create legal clarity for the peer-to-peer economy…
  • Introduce new use-cases to the blockchain…
  • Build an interoperable legal system across the Ethereum ecosystem…
  • Self-regulate new technologies and enter a new phase of blockchain development…

Explore Vattelum on GitHub

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User-Generated NFTs: A Legal Innovation for Decentralized Intellectual Property Ownership

Executive Summary

Traditional Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) failed to address the reality of copyright laws. NFTs remain centrally owned: founders retain intellectual property rights. This centralization creates regulatory vulnerabilities and unclear rights structures, undermining the core principles of decentralization.

This article examines how copyright law governs NFTs and analyzes current licensing approaches. It introduces User-Generated NFTs (UG-NFTs) as both a legal and technical innovation. By making token holders the creators—and thus copyright owners—of their NFTs, UG-NFTs align blockchain technology with established intellectual property frameworks.

While challenges remain, UG-NFTs offer a new perspective on decentralized digital asset ownership, applicable even beyond the blockchain space.
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Call for Abstracts: Blockchain and Constitutional Thinking

Blockchain has reshaped finance, but its broader impact? Still limited. The problem? Poor integration with real-world legal systems.

Therefore, I am excited to announce that our workshop Blockchain and Constitutional Thinking: Reimagining Legitimacy and Governance in a Digital World has been accepted for the 2026 World Congress of Constitutional Law in Bogotá, Colombia (July 6-10, 2026).

The aim: bringing blockchain technology together with fundamental thinking on law.

Are you a legal scholar? Then you can contribute.

What This Workshop Offers

This is your opportunity to present your blockchain legal research at a major international conference on constitutional law. If your abstract is accepted, you’ll be invited to give a presentation at our workshop in July.

Join scholars, jurists, and technologists from around the world in exploring how blockchain technology intersects with (constitutional) law.

Your participation contributes to a crucial conversation. As blockchain networks create new forms of decentralized governance, we need fresh legal thinking to address these transformations.

This workshop aims to bridge traditional constitutional scholarship with emerging blockchain technology. It aims to explore not just how law governs technology, but how technology influences the creation of law.

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Announcing Exciting Developments in the World of Decentralized Law!

I am excited to announce the launch of various new developments in the world of Decentralized Law!

After years of research and development, I am releasing a suite of resources that bridge the gap between decentralized technologies and legal systems.

The Book: Decentralized Law

It all begins with the newly launched book “Decentralized Law: The Power of Blockchain to Transform Broken Legal Systems.” This comprehensive work explores 2,500 years of legal history to understand how our current system evolved and where it’s failing.

The book examines property rights associated with crypto assets and analyzes the legality of blockchain applications, highlighting their missing legal frameworks.

It then introduces innovative legal concepts to fill the missing gaps, and envisions new forms of lawmaking that prioritize liberty and consent over central planning.

Download the book for FREE from the Internet Archive

Decentralized Law Website

I have launched a dedicated website at DecentralizedLaw.org to serve as the central hub for these concepts. The site provides resources, explanations, and practical applications of decentralized legal principles for developers, legal professionals, and anyone interested in the intersection of blockchain and law.

Revolutionary Legal Frameworks

Three foundational legal documents form the based of the peer-to-peer legal and financial systems of the future:

1. Decentralized Bill of Liberties

This document establishes universal human liberties that transcend jurisdictional boundaries. It outlines ten fundamental articles of liberty that apply equally to all individuals, existing naturally and outside of institutional enactment.

View the Decentralized Bill of Liberties

2. Declaration of State Rights and Duties

This declaration establishes clear boundaries between international governance and sovereign states. It protects state rights and collective free will against international overreach while setting standards for interstate relations.

View the Declaration of State Rights and Duties

3. Freedom of the Nodes

This legal principle establishes that decentralized networks meeting specific criteria (containing native assets, governed by open-source code, sufficiently decentralized, and universally accessible) may be freely used by everyone and without conditions.

Learn more about Freedom of the Nodes

Join the Collaboration

This is just the beginning. We’ve created a GitHub organization to facilitate open collaboration on these legal frameworks and their technical implementations. Whether you’re a legal professional, blockchain developer, or simply interested in the future of decentralized governance, we invite you to join us!

🚀 Join the Decentralized Law GitHub Organization

Together, we can build the legal infrastructure needed for the peer-to-peer economy to flourish—creating a more balanced, liberty-preserving future where law empowers rather than restricts innovation!

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What Are CBDCs? | Shocking CBDC Designs Revealed

…The SHOCKING Truth About CBDCs…
Ominous Design Revealed… A Digital Prison Is Being Built in the Shadows…

Massive overreach of Central Banks underway.
They are designing a new kind of money allowing them to:

  • Establish centralized settlement of ALL payments…
  • Tie digital identities to all transactions and record them on a central bank ledger forever…
  • Force built-in features such as limits on how much CBDC you can have in your account, negative interest rates, account charges in line with regulatory objectives, and caps on conversions and spending…
  • Create “money” that is traceable, programmable, taxable, and subject to the monetary whims of central planners…
  • Stamp out spending without permission and slowly phase out cash…

The war on money continues. The aim: to replace cash with a system of centralized control over ALL transactions and account balances.

This report explains exactly what to expect from Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs); it looks at the possible design options, what central banks have decided so far, and the likely outcomes.

The ugly conclusion is that CBDCs are a new form of currency that allows a small group of unelected people control over what we can, and cannot do with our own money…
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OECD Summary | Reporting of ALL Crypto Trades & Transactions Soon Mandatory

The War on Crypto Privacy Intensifies. Automatic Reporting of All Trades and Transactions Soon Mandatory.

Massive overreach of international regulators to force all service providers in the industry to:

  • Record ALL crypto trades on exchanges, DEFI and DEXs;
  • Record (large) purchases from private wallets;
  • Record all transfers to cold storage and make lists with private wallet addresses;
  • Send all this info annually to the (tax) authorities;
  • And finally, force governments to pass these rules into domestic law.

The war on privacy continues. The aim: to tackle anonymous spending and exchanging of crypto.

As you’ll discover, these new regulations force upon us a system of complete surveillance and control.

This report explains exactly what to expect from the latest developments launched in October 2022…

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Do We Want Bitcoin To Be Worth 500k… So That We Can Buy The Rope On Which We Will Hang? [Opinion]

“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

This quote is attributed, apparently falsely, to Lenin. I never understood what it meant… Until recently.

It was on an episode of What Bitcoin Did from last year. Host Peter McCormack interviewed Kevin O’Leary, the famous investor, known from Shark Tank.

 

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US Congress Taking Revolutionary Steps Towards A Central Bank Digital Currency

US Congress Taking Revolutionary Steps Towards A Central Bank Digital Currency

The future of money is here; will the Federal Reserve Board be authorized to use distributed ledger technology for the creation, distribution and “recordation” of all the transactions of a Digital Dollar?

On July 28, 2021, a new bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives. This bill, sponsored by Congressman Don Beyer,1)“Press Release: Beyer Introduces New Legislation To Regulate Digital Assets,” (United States Congressman Don Beyer, Washington, July 28, 2021), accessed on September 6, 2021, https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5307 aims to regulate crypto-currencies. But it does more…

The bill is called the “Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act”2)“H.R.4741 – Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act, 117th Congress (2021-2022),” (US Congress, Washington, July 28, 2021),
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4741/
[author: there is on September 18, 2021 only one version of the bill]. (“Digital Asset Bill”). And for the majority, it sets out future rules for crypto. However, hidden in this bill, changes to the foundation of the Dollar are proposed.

And because nobody outside crypto (and frankly, few inside crypto) actually read the bill, these amendments have so far largely gone unnoticed. Continue reading “US Congress Taking Revolutionary Steps Towards A Central Bank Digital Currency”

References

References
↑1“Press Release: Beyer Introduces New Legislation To Regulate Digital Assets,” (United States Congressman Don Beyer, Washington, July 28, 2021), accessed on September 6, 2021, https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5307
↑2“H.R.4741 – Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act, 117th Congress (2021-2022),” (US Congress, Washington, July 28, 2021),
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4741/
[author: there is on September 18, 2021 only one version of the bill].
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US Crypto Regulation Far More Invasive Than We Thought

New US Crypto Regulation Far More
Invasive Than We Thought

US Congress intends to regulate crypto on a level far deeper
than currently understood―They will:

  • Designate Bitcoin, Ether, and their hard-forks as commodities and regulate their transactions accordingly;
  • Create legal uncertainty for all other crypto projects and ICOs by allowing them to be labeled as securities;
  • Ban the use of (unauthorized) stablecoins;
  • Introduce prison sentences for the use of mixers and privacy coins;
  • Rebrand smart-contracts that take longer than 24 hours to deliver as futures contracts and regulate them accordingly;
  • Re-define legal tender and change the way money is created by the Federal Reserve; and authorize the issuing of a digital USD of which all transactions are recorded;
  • Force Americans receiving over $10,000 in digital assets to verify the sender’s personal information, including Social Security number, and report to the government within 15 days;
  • Introduce foreign regulations into US law for all virtual asset service providers in the US (and with US clients).

In short: Congress wants to bring crypto-currencies under full oversight and control.

These new regulations introduce massive regulatory burdens on existing projects, ban and criminalize current normal activities, restrain innovation and free enterprise, and even introduce a transparent central bank digital digital currency that redefines money as we know it!

According to United States representative Don Beyer, congress should incorporate “digital assets into existing financial regulatory structures.”1)“Press Release: Beyer Introduces New Legislation To Regulate Digital Assets,” (United States Congressman Don Beyer, Washington, July 28, 2021), accessed on September 6, 2021, https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5307 As you will see, they intend to do just that.

And it will change the way things are done for crypto forever… Continue reading “US Crypto Regulation Far More Invasive Than We Thought”

References

References
↑1“Press Release: Beyer Introduces New Legislation To Regulate Digital Assets,” (United States Congressman Don Beyer, Washington, July 28, 2021), accessed on September 6, 2021, https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5307
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FATF Summary | New Worldwide Regulation of Crypto Currencies

Governments Planning Worldwide Regulation of Crypto Currencies

The worlds’ wealthiest nations are aiming for cryptos, restricting, amongst others, the following:

  • Peer-to-Peer Transactions;
  • Stablecoins;
  • Private wallets (cold storage, phone and desktop apps);
  • Privacy (privacy coins, mixers, Decentralized exchanges, use of TOR and I2P);
  • Former ICOs and Future Projects (DeFi, NFT, smart contacts, second layer solutions, and much more).

In addition, these new regulations intend to: Continue reading “FATF Summary | New Worldwide Regulation of Crypto Currencies”