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There is no better market for microloans than Mexico and LATAM don't get sidelined
@EloteDotBaby
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Bringing collateral-free Mexican loans to Solana.
We’re providing them to the people of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico in partnership with the local municipality.
We built programmable loans that enforce repayment and let depositors earn juicy APY on their pool liquidity.
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This legend took a roasting and then did a 180:
- Amazing domain
- cleared up his usecase
- showed the real business talks they are already having
Mexican bonds on chain through Elote.baby 🌽🌽🌽🌽
W3F<>PBA Founders Grant update:
Milestone 3 has been completed and is now in the review process.
github.com/soft-law/W3F_Gran…
IP protection is getting messy in cyberspace. Anyone can launch third-party tokens and siphon profits from real creators.
NFTs & token contracts are immutable, making traditional enforcement nearly impossible.
That’s why we’re bullish on on-chain dispute resolution.
We have built a judicial system that lets legitimate owners prove ownership and claim royalties — even from community launches. ⚖️
At Soft.Law we see the future like this:
1. Tokenize / Wrap / sell your IP (NFT)
2. Autonomous Licensing and Royalties.
3. Embedded judicial system
Next up: Liquidity pools.
Copyrights ownership + liquidity on Polkadot.
Test it live on Paseo (Polkadot testnet):
app.soft.law
Code is law?
This debate goes back to Hans Kelsen (1881–1973) and Carl Schmitt (1888–1985).
-Kelsen defended a system governed by norms and constitutional order -> the rule of law.
-Schmitt argued that in moments of exception, sovereignty decides -> the rule of the King.
Blockchain industry is not unfamiliarwith this kinds of events:
- The DAO hack (2016) showed the “sovereign” moment in crypto: Ethereum intervened, reversed state, and Ethereum Classic was born.
- The Parity Wallet hack (2017) went the other way, no intervention, and funds were locked forever.
Now the same tension appears:
1. if an exploit is valid under code, is it also legitimate? Or does legitimacy require an external authority beyond the protocol?
-Kelsen: if it follows the rules, it is valid.
-Schmitt: when the system breaks, a sovereign must decide.
2. Even governance systems like OpenGov face the same dilemma: are encoded rules sufficient to resolve disputes like funding claims, or is intervention still necessary?
-Kelsen: OpenGov is a clear and transparent rule system.
-Schmitt: The sovereign is necessary to solve the controversy.
It is an old legal theory debate. Now executed on-chain. Both examples require further analysis, and in if you are involved in a similar case, look for expert advice.
We believe than academic exercises are important for the industry. Read more policy and legal theory analysis in Polkadot.law by the Softlaw research team:
ALT Kelsen vs Schmitt (1928-1931).
OSS devs also needs legal protection:
Repo: github.com/warproxxx/poly_da…
"Go wild with it" is not a license. But it's funny XD
Every fork, remix, and scraped dataset is technically a copyright violation until someone writes one line of legal text. The vibe is right. The paperwork is missing.
Keep giving without legal struggles.
leave it for softlaw. wen? wen is ready™
