# kaal:claim:3249860-042

**Claim.** Tokens launched before 2015 were overwhelmingly developed on a hardfork governance mechanism or a combination of hardfork and one other governance type.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- top 100 tokens, governance types coded as hard fork, soft fork with tokenholder voting, masternodes, or other

**Source quote.**

> Tokens launched prior to 2015 were overwhelmingly developed on a hardfork or a combination of hardfork and one of the other governance types depicted.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared* (2018), IV.10 Governance, page 31

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

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `72b13f11002ba26206cd53e74c324b913d1830c642bfa024da6bac0d3af3a7b0` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202018%20-%20Crypto%20Economics%20-%20The%20Top%20100%20Token%20Models%20Compared.pdf

**Topics.** governance-design, consensus-and-security, empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** governance, hard-fork, empirical-findings, time-series

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