# kaal:claim:3411897-022

**Claim.** DAOs are in their infancy and cannot currently overcome core governance problems while maintaining a decentralized structure; the two objectives are, as of 2019, in tension.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- state of DAO technology as of 2019

**Source quote.**

> DAOs are in their infancy and cannot currently overcome core governance problems while maintaining a decentralized structure.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future* (2019), Part 2: The Present, Decentralization Neutralizers, page 33

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Decentralization%20-%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future.pdf

**Failure mode.** dao-governance-decentralization-tension  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** dao, governance-design, decentralization

**Keywords.** dao, governance, decentralization-tradeoff, limitations

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