# Smart contract

`kaal:entity:smart-contract`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `smart-contract`. 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, 2018 to 2022.

**2018**

- [3125822-028](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-028) [condition/argued] -- For decentralized dispute resolution to deliver certainty of outcomes, the arbiter's power to disburse the assets of a contract, once triggered, must be preeminent over the parties.
  > s power to disburse the assets of the contract between the other parties, once triggered, must be preeminent in order to ensure certainty of outcomes.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

**2022**

- [4067783-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4067783-010) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Insider knowledge of contract internals is itself an attack surface: at Snowdog DAO an insider who knew a challenge key embedded in the DAO contract backran the anticipated buyback and sold tokens ahead of it.
  > For example, Snowdog DAO suffered an alleged rug-pull when an insider who knew a "challenge key" (a part of the DAOs contract), backran the anticipated buyback and began selling tokens.
  Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Fallacies (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067783

## Verify

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