# kaal:claim:3709041-029

**Claim.** In a proprietary dataset of thirty three blockchain for good projects, the projects proliferated between 2013 and 2017 and peaked in 2017, and many of them did not launch successfully or perished over time.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- based on the author's dataset of n=33 blockchain for good projects whose whitepapers were reviewed

**Source quote.**

> Figure 1 shows that blockchain for good projects proliferated between 2013-17 and peaked in 2017. Many of the projects in the dataset did not launch successfully or perished over time.

**From.** Kaal, *Blockchain Technology for Good* (2020), III. Data, page 18

**Cite as.** Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `5216a7bca45a48e3bef11ec524936e66af737c0fd66271e9f6866dc20a4482cc` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202020%20-%20Blockchain%20Technology%20for%20Good.pdf

**Failure mode.** attrition of blockchain for good projects  (family: cold-start-and-bootstrapping)

**Topics.** empirical-evidence, blockchain

**Keywords.** dataset, project-attrition, blockchain-for-good, 2017-peak

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