# kaal:claim:3782214-005

**Claim.** No major blockchain is entirely decentralized, because all of them lack binding, coded, anonymous peer to peer governance; on chain and off chain governance experiments to date fall short of that standard.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- as of the time of writing

**Source quote.**

> At the moment, however, no major blockchain is entirely decentral- ized, because they all lack pure binding coded PCP anonymous governance.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Governance* (2021), Chapter 6. Governance, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Decentralized%20Governance.pdf

**Failure mode.** incomplete decentralization  (family: recentralization-drift)

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

**Keywords.** on-chain-governance, decentralization, blockchain, protocol-governance

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