# Investment

`kaal:entity:investment`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `investment`. 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, 2017 to 2024.

**2017**

- [2939127-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-021) [empirical/evidenced] -- Venture capital investment in blockchain startups has grown exponentially since 2012, which the authors read as an indicator of the technology's commercial maturity.
  > Figure 2 shows that venture capital (VC) investment in startup companies that utilize blockchain technology has increased exponentially since 2012.
  Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

**2024**

- [4957318-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4957318-013) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The possibility that a law will expire without guaranteed renewal creates a climate of uncertainty that discourages the investment and long term planning which depend on consistent regulatory frameworks.
  > threat of laws expiring at any moment without guarantee of renewal can create a climate of uncertainty, discouraging investment and planning that relies on consistent regulatory frameworks.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Future of Law - Dynamic Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4957318

## Verify

Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust.

    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/investment.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.