# Community ownership

`kaal:entity:community-ownership`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `community-ownership`. 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

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2022.

**2018**

- [3227933-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227933-038) [design/argued] -- Issuing coins or tokens across all ecosystem participants creates a level playing field and helps establish a flatter, community-owned platform that is not based on the traditional hierarchies between shareholders, executives, managers and staff.
  > As such, the issuance of coins or tokens creates a "level playing field." Crucially, this helps establish a flatter, "community-owned" platform, which isn't based on traditional hierarchies between the platform participants
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933

**2022**

- [4015908-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4015908-002) [definitional/asserted] -- A fair launch is a token distribution in which the launched token is held entirely by the community and founders and their affiliates participate only on equal terms as members of that community.
  > In a fair launch the launched token is held entirely by the community and all founders and their affiliates are equally part of the community.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Fair Token Launch (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4015908

## Verify

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