# kaal:claim:6819121-030

**Claim.** The framework's prescriptive value is greater for DAOs in formation than in operation: a DAO designed today can adopt the prescribed architectures from inception at marginal cost, while an operating DAO faces significant migration costs and contributor-relationship risks.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- the path-dependence constraint

**Source quote.**

> A DAO that is being designed today can adopt the framework's prescribed architectures from inception, at marginal additional cost relative to designing the DAO without them. A DAO that is in operation today has to add the prescribed architectures on top of existing infrastructure, with significant migration costs and significant risks to existing contributor relationships.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis* (2026), VIII. The Architectural Repair Trajectory, page 32

**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.** dao, institutional-design, innovation

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