failure family
oracle and input corruption
- top-down reform inertia: Top-down corporate governance reform measures rarely, if ever, produce genuine change in the governance or culture of firms, and are commonly met with
- unverifiable food integrity claims: Consumers increasingly favor genetically unmodified organic food from local and sustainable sources, yet the integrity of such products is usually dif
- unavoidable contract bugs: Rigid code is law contracts must become extremely complex to cover the eventualities of real business situations, and bugs or hacks can never be certa
- unverified-edge-information: No guarantee exists in a decentralized system that the randomly generated information filtering in at the edges is accurate, as on Amazon and the inte
- centralized-oracle-capture: A DAO that relies on a centralized oracle will eventually be exploited, because the people controlling the oracle will become aware of their power ove
- immature-decentralized-oracles: Robust decentralized oracles do not yet exist despite well funded proposals, because decentralized oracles are themselves DAOs and therefore inherit t
- centralized-oracle-defeat: Blockchains cannot access off-chain data, and resolving this by using centralized oracles nullifies the advantages of decentralized systems while crea
- oracle-feed-outage: Chainlink's white-list response to the 2020 gas fee attack was only a temporary fix: had the attack impacted 50 percent of Chainlink node operators, t
- Governance Attack Vector in Funding Oracles: Retroactive public goods funding via results oracles in DAO format fails at the governance layer: even where the core resource distribution concept wo
- off-chain equity verification burden: Verification of off-chain equities held in brokerage accounts is a core implementation obstacle for LER, and before tokenized listings it required com
- Code cannot govern tangible performance: Physical goods cannot be fully governed by code, so contracts requiring tangible performance need external mechanisms to verify compliance, and smart
- Oracle and governance dependency of escrow enforcement: Escrow based enforcement is effective for automation only if it is supported by reliable oracles and robust governance, without which the mechanism is
- Pool Agreement Is Not External Correctness: The multiplicative-weights regret bound limits performance against the realized pool resolution, but does not show that the pool resolution is externa
- Recorded Resolution Is Not External Correctness: Validators face consequences for disagreement with an unkeyed pool or error against a keyed result, but this only creates an incentive to match the re