# kaal:claim:3799320-018

**Claim.** A DAO needs a legal wrapper to represent it, because a DAO cannot by itself rent an office or sign a contract that can only happen on paper.

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

**Holds when.**

- DAO operations that touch the real world

**Source quote.**

> A DAO needs a legal wrapper representing the DAO in the sense that a DAO cannot rent an office or sign a contract that can only happen on paper.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs* (2021), Governance & Legal Design Experimentation, page 13

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

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

**Keywords.** legal-wrapper, real-world-operations, dao-design, legal-entity

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-025
- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-034

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