# kaal:claim:3782201-026

**Claim.** Aragon's refusal to use its own protocol to arbitrate an internal dispute is testimony to the lack of trust its own system designers place in their system's capabilities, and its reputation and legislative and judicial governance protocols remain trivial.

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

**Source quote.**

> In RWRW, Aragon declined to use their own protocol to arbitrate an internal dispute, which is testimony to the lack of trust of their system designers in their own system capabilities.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Future of Decentralization* (2021), The 2016 DAO, page 24

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `bedf7bcfbb7a9b0112b5848cb0d941b1d41f330dafeee0143a30ff5e8aa53700` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Future%20of%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** designer distrust of own protocol  (family: adoption-and-usability-barrier)

**Topics.** dao, governance-design, systemic-risk, law-and-legal-systems, reputation

**Keywords.** aragon, dao-governance, dispute-resolution, protocol-trust

**Related claims.**

- supports: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-035

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