# kaal:claim:5887242-008

**Claim.** Separating internal on-chain governance from external legal relations maximizes decentralization while preserving real-world enforceability, thereby avoiding the fatal centralization that undermined earlier DAO concepts.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> This duality maximizes decentralization while preserving enforceability in the real world, avoiding the fatal centralization that has undermined earlier DAO concepts.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted* (2025), Chapter II, page 6

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242

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**Failure mode.** fatal-centralization-of-earlier-daos  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization, dao

**Keywords.** decentralization, enforceability, centralization-trap, dao-design

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