BCB Resolutions 519, 520 and 521, SPSAV licensing, capital thresholds and the 17.5% flat tax under MP 1303: where Brazil’s digital asset regime now stands.
Mufti Taqi Usmani’s ruling that cryptocurrency is not maal but a digital record, and what it signals for scholars, structurers and Shariah certification.
Polymarket’s CFTC licence didn’t end the fight. Ten US states are now litigating whether event contracts are swaps or wagers, and a circuit split is heading toward the Supreme Court.
Ooki DAO showed what happens without a wrapper: joint and several liability for every participant. Wyoming, Marshall Islands, ADGM and RAK DAO options, and where the structural trap lies.
Can a vetted expert crowd, incentivised on-chain and assisted by AI, settle football’s most disputed calls where VAR still leaves room for interpretive drift?
AI, autonomous systems and offensive cyber are outpacing international humanitarian law. On distinction, proportionality and the accountability vacuum.
Brazil’s Innovation Investor Visa cuts the capital threshold to BRL 150,000 for tech startups. The conditions, the two-stage process and the three-year audit.
Risk-sharing rather than interest, transparency before contract, and ethical investment screens: what actually distinguishes Islamic banking in practice.
Pakistan cannot achieve structural stability or legal predictability by maintaining an excessively rigid approach towards its legal critics.
Pakistan’s Balochistan policy needs to move from containment to an integrated stabilisation framework led by politicians and the military at the highest level.