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The Unbuilt Sandbox: Regulatory Pathways for Digital Asset Payments in Reform-Stage Economies
- The paper observes that formal innovation units and RegTech are often impractical for countries rebuilding basic financial infrastructure.
- It defines the SRGA as a supervisory posture that preserves political optionality while higher-priority reforms take precedence.
- The study draws on field evidence from UNDP pilots in Syria and Haiti that used stablecoin-based payment rails for debris-removal contractors and healthcare-related cash disbursements.
- It introduces the Gray Area Exit Framework (GAEF), which consists of a surveillance mechanism for public-purpose payment flows, defined exit metrics, and an annex-based legislative pathway to integrate digital-asset clauses into existing regulations.
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