Mechanizing Typed Regulatory Actions for Security Tokens: Semantics, Falsification, and Bounded EVM Evidence
Academic work formalises the disconnect between security-token smart-contract mechanisms and their intended legal effects, providing machine-checkable semantics for compliance actions on EVM.
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arXiv:2608.29134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Security-token standards expose privileged transfer, freezing, recovery, and compliance mechanisms, but a mechanism does not by itself identify the legal effect being executed or the evidence and reversal obligations attached to it. We formalize in Isabelle/HOL a reference execution semantics for the six regulatory-action meanings proposed in ERC-8319: FREEZE, SEIZE, CONFISCATE, LIQUIDATE, RESTRICT, and RECOVER. The model distinguishes applied, re
Editorial Analysis
As EU regulations increasingly touch tokenised assets, formal verification of on-chain compliance logic could become a prerequisite for audit readiness.
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