# kaal:claim:3782210-006

**Claim.** The failure of many DAOs to date is traceable to their reliance on the good will of network members rather than on engineered incentives.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- decentralized autonomous organizations observed to date

**Source quote.**

> The failure of many DAOs, so far, has been their reliance on the good will of the members of the network.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Chapter. Reputation, page 2

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210

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**Failure mode.** Reliance on good will  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** dao, risk-and-incentives, governance-design

**Keywords.** dao-failure, good-will, incentive-design, governance

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