kaal:claim:6819121-025

Implementing the full five-upgrade suite costs roughly six to eighteen months of engineering and 300,000 to 2 million dollars per DAO, and no DAO in the dataset has committed to the investment.

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The estimates range from six to eighteen months of engineering work and from $300,000 to $2 million in audit and engineering costs per DAO. None of the DAOs in the dataset has committed to this investment.

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Wulf A. Kaal, The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis (2026), VIII. The Architectural Repair Trajectory, p. 24
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6819121

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cost estimates for the five-upgrade suite

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empiricalsupport: evidenceddaoeconomicsinstitutional-design

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