Imbuing Normative Principles on Digital Assets into Law

This panel addresses two interrelated challenges, given the disparity between the concepts used in technical environments and those developed within legal doctrine, as well as the gap between solutions proposed by international organizations and traditional private law frameworks. First, the regulation of digital assets in the Civil law domain. Second, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the regulation and governance of digital assets, focusing on the broader challenge of legislating both for and through machines within emerging digital ecosystems. From a practical side, the panel introduces the ALCOIN regulatory experiment developed within the municipal regulatory sandbox of the City Council of Alcoy (Alicante, Spain) in September 2025. This case study illustrates how normative principles relating to digital assets can be imbued into operational regulatory environments. By combining theoretical analysis, regulatory perspectives, and applied experimentation, the panel aims to contribute to the development of sustainable legal frameworks for digital assets within the emerging AI and data value chains; what we will refer to as Civic AI technologies.