# kaal:claim:3652481-029

**Claim.** Kaal accepts that the arguments against on chain governance remain strong: in an off chain model miners supply checks and balances over protocol changes, and on chain governance arguably removes those checks and balances.

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

**Holds when.**

- public blockchains with miner based off chain governance

**Source quote.**

> Despite the ever-widening need for on-chain governance solutions, arguments against on-chain governance remain strong. In an off- chain governance model, miners provide checks and balances on power over protocol changes. On-chain governance arguably removes such checks and balances.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design* (2020), IV.1.b On-Chain Governance, page 37

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481

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**Failure mode.** loss of miner checks  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** on-chain-governance, checks-and-balances, miners, protocol-governance

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