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Dubai’s DIFC Courts propose enforcing decisions through blockchain

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Dubai International Financial Centre Courts published a white paper on 9 November 2026 proposing a link between legal decisions and digital assets. The Dispute Resolution Oracle remains a voluntary proposal, with consultation and testing preceding implementation.

Parties would designate a court or another qualified forum in advance. During a dispute, the relevant asset could be temporarily preserved; an authorised instruction would subsequently enforce the decision on a participating network.

The document includes due-process safeguards and multiple authorisations before enforcement. It considers tokenised property and shares, as well as transactions involving artificial intelligence agents. Judges and other forums would retain human adjudication. The Courts say no deployment involving real economic value should occur before end-to-end testing.

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