# kaal:claim:3799320-002

**Claim.** Decentralized governance must be dynamic and evolutionary, otherwise the system becomes centralized and brittle over time; most DAOs fail to accomplish this.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- governance that must persist over time
- systems relying on information from the edges

**Source quote.**

> Decentralized governance has to be dynamic and evolutionary in order to avoid for the system to become, over time, centralized and brittle. Most DAOs fail to accomplish this.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs* (2021), Introduction, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320

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**Failure mode.** Static governance ossification  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** governance-design, institutional-design, dao

**Keywords.** dynamic-governance, evolutionary-governance, brittleness, dao-failure

**Related claims.**

- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-021
- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-017

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