# kaal:claim:4734750-014

**Claim.** Legacy code reviews can last weeks or months, and those delays can force complete rewrites of contracts because the underlying protocol may have upgraded core libraries while the review was still running.

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

**Holds when.**

- digital asset markets where underlying protocols upgrade frequently

**Source quote.**

> 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, *Code Review DAO* (2024), Timing, page 15

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `60eadf91c0913468505afc664c8d8d1e1673d6c5326d031ca7060addb8ab2eda` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20Code%20Review%20DAO.pdf

**Failure mode.** Review latency obsolescence  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** review-latency, protocol-upgrades, rework, digital-assets

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