# kaal:claim:4529715-030

**Claim.** VitaDAO's one token one vote structure leaves it susceptible to the 51 percent or whale attack, a vulnerability made worse because the VITA token is primarily purchasable.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- one token one vote with a purchasable token

**Source quote.**

> Because Vita uses a one token one vote, they are susceptible to the 51% problem, or "Whale Attack." This problem is further exacerbated because the Vita token is primarily a purchasable token.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis* (2023), Appendix, Charity DAOs, VitaDAO, page 116

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis (2023). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4529715

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `2d71961e8c449afbeaf45ca4f53de8a575d45c77d6960b767d3d1d0874f296b5` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20and%20Bykowski%20-%202023%20-%20Decentralized%20Autonomous%20Organizations%20%28DAO%29%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Market%20Meta%20Analysis.pdf

**Failure mode.** whale-attack  (family: plutocratic-capture)

**Topics.** dao, consensus-and-security, tokenomics

**Keywords.** dao, whale-attack, 51-percent-attack, purchasable-tokens, vitadao

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-013
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-027
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-038
- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-030

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