failure mode index

How these systems break, and under what conditions.

2080 claims in 57 families, drawn from the published works of Wulf A. Kaal. Machine readable: index.json.

Family	Claims
recentralization drift	123
regulatory lag	102
rule obsolescence and ossification	97
enforcement gap	83
staking and incentive misalignment	62
valuation and pricing failure	62
research design limitation	62
measurement and metric failure	57
reputation system gaming	57
collective action and coordination failure	55
ai oversight and alignment gap	53
governance participation collapse	51
agency cost and managerial opportunism	50
adoption and usability barrier	44
definitional ambiguity	44
investor protection gap	43
scalability and throughput limit	42
innovation chilling	41
data quality and comparability	40
supervisory capacity gap	39
board and oversight failure	38
plutocratic capture	38
disclosure ineffectiveness	37
liquidity and market structure failure	37
cold start and bootstrapping	36
jurisdictional conflict	35
compliance cost and barrier to entry	35
harmonization and standardization failure	34
legal personality and liability gap	34
smart contract rigidity	34
incumbent resistance to adoption	33
human judgment displacement	32
other	31
ai model and training failure	31
inequality and access divide	29
consensus and protocol attack	29
information asymmetry	27
fraud and misconduct	25
regulatory arbitrage	24
sybil and identity attack	24
trigger design failure	21
systemic risk transmission	20
sample and selection bias	17
regulatory capture and incumbent advantage	16
privacy and surveillance risk	16
transition and migration risk	15
interoperability and fragmentation	15
short termism	15
smart contract bug and exploit	14
custody and key loss	14
moral hazard and bailout expectation	13
token transferability defect	13
oracle and input corruption	12
disclosure cost and burden	10
provenance and audit integrity	7
environmental and resource cost	6
institutional underprovision	6