# kaal:claim:3808867-011

**Claim.** Personal assets such as one's data, preferences, and opinions can only be commercialized to a limited degree in existing centralized structures, whereas decentralized structures allow those same assets to be tokenized, valued, and mobilized.

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

**Holds when.**

- personal consumption data, preferences and opinions
- early 2020s decentralized markets

**Source quote.**

> Such assets, e.g. one's data, preferences, opinions etc. can only limitedly be commercialized in existing centralized structures. In decentralized structures such assets can be tokenized, valued, and mobilized.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), II. Decentralism Transcends Capitalism and Socialism, page 8

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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**Topics.** tokenomics, decentralization

**Keywords.** tokenization, data-ownership, decentralized-commerce, personal-data

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-016
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-011

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