# kaal:claim:3782203-007

**Claim.** Because decentralized organizations have no leaders and no hierarchy of control, any governance process must be instituted from the very beginning; it cannot be added later by an authority.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- leaderless decentralized organizations

**Source quote.**

> Since decentralized organizations don't have leaders or a hierarchy of control, any governance process must be instituted from the very beginning.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *A Technical Perspective on Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 6. Technical perspective, page 3

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

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**Topics.** dao, governance-design, decentralization

**Keywords.** dao-governance, founding-design, leaderlessness, decentralization

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