{
 "@context": "https://schema.org",
 "@type": "DefinedTerm",
 "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/regulatory-vacuum",
 "identifier": "kaal:entity:regulatory-vacuum",
 "name": "Regulatory vacuum",
 "termCode": "regulatory-vacuum",
 "inDefinedTermSet": {
  "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/index.json"
 },
 "author": {
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Wulf A. Kaal",
  "identifier": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0757-275X"
 },
 "dateModified": "2026-07-29",
 "canonicalForm": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/regulatory-vacuum.md",
 "sha256": "688015e6f2e51a94f3fecba8a7d97937b0ca77a1708d04d0e89ebb13246c6fb5",
 "additionalProperty": [
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "status",
   "value": "derived"
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "claim_count",
   "value": 2
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "work_count",
   "value": 2
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "year_span",
   "value": [
    "2021",
    "2021"
   ]
  },
  {
   "@type": "PropertyValue",
   "name": "non_current_claims",
   "value": 0
  }
 ],
 "subjectOf": [
  {
   "@type": "Claim",
   "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-030",
   "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782201-030",
   "text": "The more decentralized products are, meaning more censorship resistant, autonomous, and beyond regulatory control, the more they are left in a regulatory vacuum, and the resulting legal uncertainty limits their expansion, reach, and evolution.",
   "abstract": "As a result, the more decen- tralized products that are more censorship resistant, autonomous, and cannot be con- trolled by regulatory agencies, are largely left in a regulatory vacuum. The associated legal uncertainty limits their expansion, reach, and evolution.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201",
   "datePublished": "2021",
   "claim_type": "mechanism",
   "confidence": "argued",
   "is_failure_mode": true,
   "scope_conditions": [
    "people coins as distinct from government coins and corporate coins"
   ],
   "source_pdf_sha256": "bedf7bcfbb7a9b0112b5848cb0d941b1d41f330dafeee0143a30ff5e8aa53700",
   "status": "current"
  },
  {
   "@type": "Claim",
   "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-026",
   "identifier": "kaal:claim:3808873-026",
   "text": "Regulatory solutions tracked the characteristics of issuers, so the more decentralized, censorship resistant and autonomous products that regulators could not control were left in a regulatory vacuum that limited their expansion, reach and evolution.",
   "abstract": "As a result, the more decentralized products that were more censorship resistant, autonomous, and could not be controlled by regulatory agencies, were largely left in a regulatory vacuum that limited their expansion, reach, and evolution.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873",
   "datePublished": "2021",
   "claim_type": "mechanism",
   "confidence": "argued",
   "is_failure_mode": true,
   "scope_conditions": [
    "jurisdiction specific regulatory frameworks of the early 2020s"
   ],
   "source_pdf_sha256": "f11493915e6b8c266d421510b5546816e33defb5650aac9d09b20d78549da727",
   "status": "current"
  }
 ],
 "description": "2 claims in the published works of Wulf A. Kaal carry the concept tag 'regulatory-vacuum'. Derived node: a roster, not an adjudicated definition."
}