# Mainstream adoption

`kaal:entity:mainstream-adoption`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `mainstream-adoption`. 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 2 works, 2018 to 2021.

**2018**

- [3249860-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3249860-032) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- It is unclear whether the cryptocurrency market on its own can over time produce the level of stability and absence of volatility that cryptocurrencies need to become truly mainstream.
  > It is unclear if the cryptocurrency market alone will over time be able to create the level of stability and lack of volatility that is needed for cryptocurrencies to become truly mainstream.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Crypto Economics - The Top 100 Token Models Compared (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3249860

**2021**

- [3808873-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-005) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Decentralized issuers treated central bank issued digital currencies as a threat rather than as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, and that misreading forfeited a route to broader adoption.
  > Rather than seeing the central bank issued digital currencies as a pathway to mainstream acceptance of more decentralized cryptocurrencies, the decentralized issuers of digital assets and their community perceived their centralized counterparts as a threat.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873
- [3808873-041](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-041) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Usability is the most important decentralized infrastructure requirement: without intuitive graphic user interfaces, decentralized systems may not reach mainstream consumer adoption, because requiring users to manage public and private keys and their own security makes sufficient public education very difficult.
  > Without graphic user interfaces that are intuitive, decentralized systems may not be able to reach mainstream consumer adoption.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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