# kaal:claim:3981021-023

**Claim.** The CHARITYxDAO's long term success depends on maintaining dynamic decentralized fluidity and order; without it the values that initially united the voting associates are at risk of morphing into ever tighter, more complex, and hierarchical structures.

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

**Holds when.**

- DAOs holding fungible assets over long time horizons

**Source quote.**

> long-term success depends on its ability to maintain the dynamic decentralized fluidity and dynamic decentralized order. Without it, the CHARITYxDAO's values that initially united and reinforced the CHARITYxDAO VAs are at risk of morphing into ever tighter, complex, and hierarchical structures.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving* (2021), Governance, page 25

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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**Failure mode.** Re-centralization drift in DAO governance  (family: recentralization-drift)

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

**Keywords.** decentralization, hierarchy, institutional-drift, dao-governance, longevity

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