# kaal:claim:3406323-001

**Claim.** Decentralized systems lack a central intelligence or leadership hierarchy; instead intelligence is distributed through the system and information enters at the edges, closer to where action occurs and where real time information is generated.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- existing decentralized systems

**Source quote.**

> decentralized systems do not have a central intelligence or leadership system with traditional hierarchies. Instead, the intelligence is spread throughout the system.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy* (2019), I. What is Decentralization?, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323

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**Topics.** decentralization, institutional-design

**Keywords.** decentralization, edge-intelligence, hierarchy, information-flow

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-002

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