# kaal:claim:6819121-016

**Claim.** Even AI-adjacent DAOs are building the plumbing for autonomous agents to consume on-chain data while failing to build the institutional guardrails to constrain those agents when they act on that data.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- AI-adjacent DAOs in the dataset (Vana, Filecoin, Streamr)

**Source quote.**

> These DAOs are building the plumbing for autonomous agents to consume on-chain data while simultaneously failing to build the institutional guardrails to constrain those agents when they act on that data.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis* (2026), VI. Findings, Finding 2, page 17

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6819121

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**Topics.** ai-and-agents, dao, risk-and-incentives

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