# kaal:claim:3782201-033

**Claim.** Instead of building compatible technologies in the service of interoperability, most crypto projects compete with each other, contradicting the open source culture the space needs if it has any hope of thriving.

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

**Holds when.**

- driven by the strong libertarian focus of influential Web3 developers

**Source quote.**

> Instead of building compatible tech- nologies in the service of interoperability, most are competing with each other, con- tradicting the open source culture that should pervade the space if it has any hope of thriving.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Future of Decentralization* (2021), Overhead institutions are catalysts for the economy, page 28

**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.** intra community coordination failure  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** open-source-and-code, institutional-design

**Keywords.** interoperability, open-source, crypto-community, coordination-failure

**Related claims.**

- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-001

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