# kaal:claim:3782203-008

**Claim.** Impossibility results establish that no static set of rules can eternally sustain a DAO, which is why DAOs must be set up to run with a dynamic set of rules from the very beginning.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- fixed toolsets and fixed rule sets

**Source quote.**

> The impossibility results show we can never design a static set of rules which will eternally sustain a DAO. But that just means we need to set up DAOs to run from the beginning with a dynamic set of rules.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *A Technical Perspective on Decentralization* (2021), Impossibility results, page 4

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

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**Failure mode.** eternal-static-ruleset  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** dao

**Keywords.** impossibility-results, dynamic-rules, dao-design, distributed-computing

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