# Killer app

`kaal:entity:killer-app`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `killer-app`. 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, 2019 to 2021.

**2019**

- [3411897-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-025) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Without a core use case beyond Bitcoin's store of value function, decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate.
  > Without a core use case, other than the store of value (in Bitcoin), decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**2021**

- [3782201-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-022) [predictive/argued] -- The killer app for the decentralized economy is the DAO, a company governed autonomously by smart contracts and organized without any single permanent governing authority or concentrated ownership, whose existence would justify the other decentralized overhead tools.
  > We are still waiting for a single application, a killer app for WebZ. What will be the killer app for the decentralized economy? The answer is a DAO.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

## Verify

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