# kaal:claim:3808873-013

**Claim.** Applying decentralized technology to optimize a legacy system, for example using blockchain to improve the malfunctioning shareholder proxy voting process, perpetuates the outdated and malfunctioning centralized system rather than replacing it with a better performing decentralized one.

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

**Holds when.**

- decentralized technology deployed as an optimization layer on centralized legacy processes

**Source quote.**

> In the process, the outdated and malfunctioning centralized legacy systems are being perpetuated rather than being replaced with better performing decentralized systems.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization Neutralizers* (2021), III. S-Curve of Centralization, page 10

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `f11493915e6b8c266d421510b5546816e33defb5650aac9d09b20d78549da727` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Decentralization%20Neutralizers.pdf

**Failure mode.** Legacy Optimization Trap  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** blockchain, governance-design

**Keywords.** legacy-systems, blockchain-optimization, proxy-voting, perpetuation

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