# kaal:claim:3799320-003

**Claim.** Tying a DAO's legal existence to existing legal and jurisdictional frameworks typically requires a representative in the chosen jurisdiction, which centralizes the DAO and results in the failure of the DAO concept.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- DAO anchored in an existing jurisdiction
- frameworks that require local representation

**Source quote.**

> Tying the legal existence of a DAO to any forms of existing legal and jurisdictional frameworks typically results in the need for a representative in the chosen legal framework and jurisdiction, which, in turn, centralizes the DAO and results in the failure of the DAO concept.

**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.** Representation-induced legal centralization  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization, law-and-legal-systems, dao

**Keywords.** legal-centralization, legal-wrapper, jurisdiction, dao-failure

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-001
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-023

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