kaal:claim:3782217-004

Any reliance by a DAO on a centralized feature creates a centralized point of failure that threatens the survival of the organization and renders the system technically centralized despite its decentralized appearance.

Any time your DAO relies on a centralized feature, that is a centralized point of failure that is a threat to the survival of the organization. That means the system is technically centralized.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021), Oracles, p. 3
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217 · source PDF

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

• DAOs with any centralized dependency, including oracles

failuresupport: arguedfailure: centralized-dependency-nullifies-decentralizationfamily: recentralization-driftsmart-contractsdecentralizationdao

• generalizes kaal:claim:4015908-026 DAO governance over token launch wallets can assure that no single individual exercises rights over the token ...
• generalizes kaal:claim:4941807-014 Centralizing data in a single repository, while it permits powerful computation and advanced algorithms, poses...
• specializes kaal:claim:3782192-027 Centralization is a natural state that evolves out of decentralization under competition unless it is consciou...
• specializes kaal:claim:3782191-026 Centralization has two major flaws that inevitably lead to its downfall; the first is that every centralized o...

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