# kaal:claim:3782214-033

**Claim.** Without unifying transcendental ideals, liminal cases will fragment a decentralized network; transcendental values are therefore always necessary to maintain the stability of a network and should be the first thing a DAO establishes.

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

**Holds when.**

- novel disputes that fall outside existing hard protocols

**Source quote.**

> Without such unifying ideals, liminal cases will fragment the network. Ultimately, transcendental values are always necessary to maintain the sta- bility of a network, so they are the first thing the DAO should establish.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Governance* (2021), Judicial short-term governance with hard and soft protocols, page 20

**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.** value vacuum fragmentation  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** transcendental-values, soft-protocols, arbitration, network-stability

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