# kaal:claim:2939127-020

**Claim.** Increased connectivity enabled by blockchain technology, combined with increased decentralization, allows the removal of intermediaries including lawyers, financial intermediaries, and platform companies.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- environments where blockchain enabled connectivity and decentralization advance together

**Source quote.**

> Increased connectivity enabled by blockchain technology in combination with increased decentralization allows for the removal of intermediaries, including lawyers, financial intermediaries, and platform companies.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution* (2017), III.2. Decentralization, page 24

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

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**Topics.** blockchain, decentralization

**Keywords.** blockchain, decentralization, disintermediation, platform-companies, connectivity

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