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Hainlex Digital-asset counsel

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Four boxes, one wrong label

Glass dome of the Munich Palace of Justice

Marketing likes one word. The file needs a test. Is there a claim on an issuer? Can it be spent as money? Is it only a collectible with no rights? Does German WpHG still catch it even if MiCA also speaks?

We run the tests in that order and we write down the facts that fail. A governance token with a hidden profit right is not saved by the word “utility” in a heading.

The output is a classification memo with assumptions listed. If the product changes, the memo dies. That is the point.

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