# kaal:claim:3405401-035

**Claim.** Similar business deals and contracts between counterparties must be organized and reviewable by the public, and the transaction history has to be fully openly viewable and verifiable so that parties can see that counterparties will perform as expected.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> The history of transactions has to be fully openly viewable and verifiable, so that business parties can see that their counterparties will perform as expected.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed* (2019), VI. Decentralized Reputation as the Solution, page 9

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401

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**Topics.** disclosure, reputation

**Keywords.** transparency, public-record, verification, reputation

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-037

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