open call · jurisdiction maintainers
Twelve legal systems. One person reading them.
Primary-source verification is the slow half of this work, and it is done by hand. The register is honest about what that costs: of 152 sourced records, 46 clear the full citable bar, and the rest are published as a per-cell worklist rather than smoothed over. A jurisdiction maintainer is the single contribution that moves that number.
what the role is
One person who reads one legal system and keeps its cells honest. It does not need to be full-time and it does not replace anyone's day job. It needs someone who already reads primary law in that system and is willing to write down what they read, with a pinpoint, in a form that can be argued with.
- 01Works the backlog cells for that jurisdiction: finds the official text, confirms it says what the record says, attaches the pinpoint.
- 02Watches the pending instruments. When a commencement date is fixed or moves, the trigger table has to move with it, because the time engine reads its dates from there.
- 03Files corrections where the record and the text diverge — with the provision, not with an assertion.
- 04Reviews the corridor verdicts touching that jurisdiction: class, mechanism, direction, and above all whether the inbound side is read correctly.
- 01Does not give legal advice. Nothing here is advice to anyone, and the role creates no retainer.
- 02Does not speak for an employer, a client, or any institution. Contributions are personal and so is the credit.
- 03Does not bring non-public material in. Anything not publicly published cannot enter the register, because a third party cannot check it and it is therefore not citable by definition.
- 04Does not promise coverage velocity. One verified cell beats ten guessed ones, and that is the only ground this project stands on.
All twelve are open
The table below is ordered by the weight of the backlog and by how fast the legal record is moving, not by importance. The ones near the top are where a maintainer removes the most uncertainty on day one.
| Jurisdiction | What is live there | Language needed |
|---|---|---|
| US | The GENIUS Act §18 comparability gate and the three-agency rulemaking. Eight inbound corridors hang on one date. | English |
| UK | Commencement preparation under SI 2026/102, and the knock-on if that date moves. | English |
| EU | MiCA level-2 measures and technical standards, and what the equivalence and recognition routes look like in practice. | English (member-state languages a plus) |
| HK | Implementation detail under the stablecoin licensing regime and the conditions on the first licences. | Chinese / English |
| SG | The MAS stablecoin framework and its seams with the existing payment services licensing. | English |
| JP | The electronic payment instruments regime under the Payment Services Act, and how trust-type structures differ from the rest. | Japanese |
| KR | The legislative process itself. Currently recorded as pre-regime; when that stops being true is one of the more consequential calls in the table. | Korean |
| TW | Subordinate rules and commencement arrangements after third reading. This is the cell that changed on the afternoon of the last build. | Chinese |
| CN | The mainland prohibition and its boundary with Hong Kong, including keeping “blocked” and “pre-regime” correctly apart. | Chinese |
| CH | FINMA practice and where it intersects the banking and financial market infrastructure acts. | German / French / English |
| AE | The layering between federal rules and the financial free zones (ADGM, DIFC, VARA) — the cell an outside reader most often gets wrong. | Arabic / English |
| BR | The central bank's foreign-exchange and virtual asset service provider rules, and how they jointly decide the inbound side. | Portuguese |
a jurisdiction that is not one of the twelve
Apply anyway. Adding a jurisdiction is much heavier than maintaining one — it means fifteen dimensions from nothing rather than checking existing cells — so if you are nominating a new one, say in the application why it earns a place and which corridors you would start from.
the open worklist
Every cell is a bounded task one person can finish alone.
The table below is read straight from the register's verification_worklist.json. It is not a call for general help: it names, cell by cell, the jurisdiction, the dimension, exactly what is missing, and the language needed. Complete one and your name enters that record with your ORCID, and appears in CITATION.cff.
Reading from the register…
how an application is read
Credentials help and are not decisive. What is decisive is one specific question on the form: name a cell in the register you believe is wrong or incomplete, and give the provision.
That question is the filter because it cannot be answered without actually opening the data and actually reading a provision. A well-written introduction does not answer it, and neither does a CV. Conversely, someone who answers it cleanly is already doing the work.
Applications go straight to the maintainer's inbox, are read by that person, and are answered, usually within two weeks. There is no screening pipeline, no applicant tracking system, and nobody else reading your material. If two weeks pass with no reply, send it again: that means it did not arrive, not that it was declined.
Apply to maintain a jurisdiction
Only the name, the email, the jurisdiction and the specific question are required. The rest can be left blank and the form still submits; an incomplete application is still read.
where this goes
The form posts through a relay that delivers to yunjiefan.research@gmail.com. This site runs no server, sets no cookies, and keeps no copy of an application: outside that one email there is nowhere it is stored. If you would rather it did not pass through a third-party relay, use the email link above instead.
other ways to help
Ordered by usefulness, not by how much they ask of you.
A primary-source correction
One cell where the text says something other than the record, with the provision. The shortest and most valuable contribution there is, and it requires no standing at all. Goes to the issue tracker.
An institutional home
A university centre, a standards body, or a public-interest funder for whom a verified, machine-readable account of cross-border digital-asset law is worth keeping current.
Use it and say where it broke
Mount the MCP server in your own agent, then say where it produced an answer it should not have. That is worth considerably more than agreement.
Cite it
If you use it in a paper or a policy document, cite the DOI of the version you actually read. That is the only way this work leaves a trace in the scholarly record.