UCC Article 12 – Control Analysis Prototype

The Analyzer is an early-stage prototype developed as part of Jason W. Shim’s ongoing work on UCC Article 12 and the legal treatment of “controllable electronic records.” The program performs bytecode-level inspection of an Ethereum mainnet smart contract. A user supplies a contract address and jurisdiction, and the Analyzer retrieves the deployed bytecode from the network, including, where applicable, following common proxy patterns to the underlying implementation code.

The Analyzer identifies and catalogs control-relevant technical features observable in the bytecode—such as administrative functions, upgradeability mechanisms, pausing or blacklisting capabilities, and other execution constraints—and organizes those observations against the statutory framework of UCC § 12-105 (or the enacted state analogue). The output is a concise, well-formatted memorandum describing the contract analyzed, the bytecode features observed, and the statutory provisions to which those features may be relevant. The Analyzer is intended solely as an analytical aid to support internal review and discussion; it does not determine legal compliance, render legal conclusions, or substitute for legal judgment. The prototype is available at https://collateralos.com/.

 The Analyzer white paper is available here. A sample output memorandum is available here.