# Decentralized commerce `kaal:entity:decentralized-commerce` **Status.** derived This node is assembled mechanically from the 16 claims that carry the concept tag `decentralized-commerce`. 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 16 claims across 6 works, 2019 to 2024. **2019** - [3396522-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3396522-007) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- JPM Coin's closed structure, restricting the token to existing J.P. Morgan clients, is an anachronism, because closed ecosystems are unsustainable in emerging decentralized commerce. > The close structure of the JPM coin, e.g. JPM makes it only available to existing clients, appears to be an anachronism.95 Closed ecosystems are unsustainable in the emerging decentralized commerce. Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396522 - [3396522-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3396522-032) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The low transaction throughput of public blockchains is a core limitation holding back more advanced distributed applications and, with them, decentralized commerce. > The low transaction throughputs of public blockchains158 is a core limitation that holds back more advanced DApps. Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396522 - [3396522-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3396522-033) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Decentralization technology is unlikely to proliferate without a core use case beyond store of value; banking, money transmission, and triple entry accounting are natural use cases but fall short of being universal use cases for public blockchains. > Moreover, without a core use case, other than the store of value, decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate. Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396522 - [3396522-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3396522-034) [condition/argued] -- A decentralized crypto economy requires a stable coin because no rational party will risk wealth on a long term contract denominated in a volatile currency: neither renter nor landlord will sign a lease whose rent may halve or double in any given week. > Neither party to a business transaction should be willing to risk their wealth on a long-term business contract which uses a volatile currency. Neither the renter nor the landlord will sign a contract if the rent may halve or double in any given week. Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396522 - [3405401-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-001) [definitional/asserted] -- Decentralized commerce is the global exchange of financial instruments, goods and services conducted through decentralized and emerging technologies, a stipulated definition the paper relies on throughout. > Decentralized commerce may generically be defined as the global exchange of financial instruments, goods and services via decentralized and emerging technologies. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401 - [3405401-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-003) [mechanism/asserted] -- Smart contracts make decentralized commerce between anonymous parties possible because they provide automated contracting that self executes and self regulates according to mathematical strictures. > Smart contracts allow anonymous parties to engage in decentralized commerce by providing automated contracting that self-executes and self-regulates according to mathematical strictures. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401 - [3405401-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-021) [condition/argued] -- Solving the trust problem in decentralized commerce requires an intangible value system, not a further transferable store of value. > To solve the issues of trust in decentralized commerce, an intangible value system is needed. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401 - [3405401-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-032) [predictive/asserted] -- By removing the need for costly back testing, template validation facilitates decentralized business transactions at unprecedented scale. > The validation removes the need for costly back- testing and facilitates decentralized business transactions at unprecedented scale. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401 - [3406323-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-003) [definitional/asserted] -- Decentralized commerce is defined as the global exchange of financial instruments, goods, and services via emerging decentralized technologies. > Decentralized commerce may generically be defined as the global exchange of financial instruments, goods and services via emerging decentralized technologies. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323 - [3406323-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-012) [mechanism/argued] -- Decentralized technologies increase consumer and market trust at unprecedented scale, which lowers transaction costs and raises confidence and certainty, thereby facilitating economies of scale that centralized structures may not be able to achieve. > Trust can help lower transaction costs but it also increases consumer and overall market confidence and certainty, which facilitate economies of scale that may not be possible in centralized structures. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323 - [3406323-024](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-024) [condition/argued] -- Because of their disciplining and market stability enhancing effects, stable cryptocurrencies form the backbone of the financial technology infrastructure required for any distributed app economy and decentralized commerce to emerge. > Because of their disciplining and market stability enhancing effects, stable cryptocurrencies are part of the financial technology infrastructure that will form the backbone of any emergence of the distributed app economy and decentralized commerce. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323 - [3406323-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-034) [condition/argued] -- The flexibility that human business requires will unlikely ever be attained in existing decentralized protocols unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce. > the needed flexibility in existing decentralized protocols will unlikely ever be attained unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323 - [3411897-029](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-029) [condition/argued] -- Decentralized underwriting is a necessary precondition for decentralized commerce: without something functioning as an insurance policy when commercial risks materialize, the public has no reason to pursue the benefits of decentralized commerce. > Without someone or something that functions as an insurance policy should risks in commerce materialize, the public has no reason to try to benefit from the potential benefits of decentralized commerce, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897 - [3411897-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-034) [condition/argued] -- The flexibility that human business requires will unlikely ever be attained in existing decentralized protocols unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce. > While more sophisticated smart contracts over time can fulfill some of these human business requirements, the needed flexibility in existing decentralized protocols will unlikely ever be attained unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897 **2021** - [3808867-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-011) [mechanism/argued] -- Personal assets such as one's data, preferences, and opinions can only be commercialized to a limited degree in existing centralized structures, whereas decentralized structures allow those same assets to be tokenized, valued, and mobilized. > Such assets, e.g. one's data, preferences, opinions etc. can only limitedly be commercialized in existing centralized structures. In decentralized structures such assets can be tokenized, valued, and mobilized. Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867 **2024** - [4685567-040](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4685567-040) [predictive/speculative] -- The voting logic makes impact community members work for themselves and for the community at the same time, which Kaal argues gives the system potential to create a reputation economy and forms of decentralized commerce that transcend capitalism and socialism. > Through the voting logic, impact community members are incentivized to work for themselves while at the same time working to benefit the community overall. Wulf A. Kaal, Impact Investing Innovation - From Impact 1.0 to 3.0 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4685567 ## Verify Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. 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