# kaal:claim:3249860-043

**Claim.** Outlier governance mechanisms rose sharply in the dataset: three per year in 2015 and 2016, then eighteen in 2017, and five in the first six months of 2018.

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

**Holds when.**

- governance types coded as other

**Source quote.**

> During 2015 and 2016, three outlier tokens were launched per year. These tokens were Tether, Factom, and Iota; DigixDAO, Gas, and Ark. During 2017, this figure jumped to eighteen tokens.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared* (2018), IV.10 Governance, page 32

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

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**Topics.** governance-design, empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** governance, outliers, empirical-findings, governance-experimentation

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