# kaal:claim:3799320-022

**Claim.** Without continual effort to maintain decentralized order, the values that initially unite DAO members tend to produce ever tighter and more complex hierarchical structures inside the DAO.

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

**Holds when.**

- absence of continual decentralization maintenance

**Source quote.**

> Without continual efforts to maintain decentralized order, values that initially unite DAO members have a tendency to result in ever tighter and complex hierarchical structures in the DAO.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs* (2021), DAO of DAOs, page 16

**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.** Hierarchical filtering drift  (family: recentralization-drift)

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

**Keywords.** hierarchy-formation, decentralized-order, centralization-drift, dao-longevity

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-008
- generalizes: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-023
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-007

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