By Yasmine EDDAM
24 June 2025
The emergence of digital assets has profoundly altered the wealth landscape, creating new forms of wealth based on complex technological foundations. As lawyers, we have observed that the ownership and transfer of these intangible assets raises unprecedented legal issues. The particularity of these assets is that their legal regime cannot be dissociated from the technology that underpins them. De facto power, i.e. effective technical control, often precedes and conditions de jure power. Understanding this dynamic is essential for any owner, investor or professional. This complex world, at the frontiers of law and information technology, is the subject of our article on digital assets: legal challenges and practical solutions, which lays the foundations for a discussion that we will explore in greater depth here. Technology at the heart of the definition of digital assets A purely legal analysis of digital assets is not enough to understand them properly. The legal definition...
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