# kaal:claim:3995709-018

**Claim.** Delays in legacy code reviews, which can be exacerbated by digital asset market conditions, can impact development and may require complete rewriting of contracts because the underlying protocol may have upgraded core libraries during the review.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- legacy code review settings
- fast moving protocol environments in digital asset markets

**Source quote.**

> This can get exacerbated by market conditions in the digital asset market. These significant delays can impact development and may require complete rewriting of contracts because the underlying protocol may have upgraded core libraries during the code review.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards* (2021), Timing, page 13

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `6d77dbfb15ee86080bfde0b98089180cabafeb6defdf0f05eaaeb3cb99871e89` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20How%20DAOs%20Optimize%20Open-Source%20Code%20Reviews%20and%20Create%20Open-Source%20Standards.pdf

**Failure mode.** review delay causing contract obsolescence  (family: smart-contract-rigidity)

**Topics.** smart-contracts

**Keywords.** review-latency, protocol-upgrades, smart-contracts, failure-mode

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