# kaal:claim:3249860-007

**Claim.** The democratization of monetary policy in token economies creates a serious problem, because token designers lack the qualifications and institutional functions that centralized central banking distributes across multiple institutions and their staff.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- token economies in which the designer sets supply, timing, and allocation

**Source quote.**

> This creates a serious problem for many token economies as the designers lack the qualifications and functions that are

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared* (2018), II.3 Macro vs. Micro, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3249860

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**Failure mode.** unqualified-monetary-policy-designer  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** tokenomics, systemic-risk

**Keywords.** monetary-policy, token-design, central-banking, designer-competence

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