# kaal:claim:3441904-017

**Claim.** If curators and contractors are paid from a fungible currency source without a direct or indirect penalty for underperformance, such as lower token scores, DAO contractors and workers may be corrupted by external sources.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- fungible payment without an underperformance penalty

**Source quote.**

> If curators' and contractors' payment come from a fungible currency source without a direct or indirect penalty for underperformance, such as lower token scores, DAO contractors and workers may be corrupted by external sources.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance* (2019), III.1 Centralized Design Elements in the Original 2016 DAO, page 16

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e6b562527f7f19accaa35491db0a0db168b6a936755e1dca424e9f30bee7a815` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Blockchain-Based%20Corporate%20Governance.pdf

**Failure mode.** fungible-payment-capture  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** risk-and-incentives, dao

**Keywords.** corruption, fungibility, incentive-design, dao

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