# Chicken and egg

`kaal:entity:chicken-and-egg`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `chicken-and-egg`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782205-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782205-030) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The stablecoin cannot be efficient until a robust decentralized economy already exists, producing a chicken and egg problem in which the required institutions presuppose one another.
  > We need a robust decentralized economy (#W, below) before the stablecoin can be efficient—another chicken and egg problem.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205
- [3782210-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782210-035) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Reputation-based governance faces a chicken and egg problem: voting becomes more efficient once reputation is valuable, but reputation cannot become valuable without meaningful voting.
  > This is another chicken and egg problem. Voting will be more efficient with valu- able reputation. Reputation can't be valuable without meaningful voting.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210
- [3782217-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-016) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Oracle DAOs and decentralized finance DAOs face a bootstrapping deadlock because each relies on the other for its very existence, a chicken and egg problem the authors address by having participants prove their worth in a development period before they can charge other DAOs fees.
  > Unfortunately, oracle DAOs and deFi DAOs rely on each other for their very existence. Which will come first, the chicken or the egg?
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

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