# kaal:position:2026-07-30-007

**Affirmed position.** DAO governance should be evaluated by explicit resistance to capture, participation collapse, and collective-action failure. Token voting is an input, not evidence that those failure modes have been solved.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-30

**Holds when.**

- DAO governance systems using token voting or comparable on-chain collective decision procedures.

**Current debate.** DAO governance research: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2024.07033

**Extends.** kaal:claim:5254152-014: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-014

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254152

**Source PDF sha256.** `bb2052d809a4615f0f3e2526ba6416293c40d00260149ba4fe6f38addf052796`

**Topics.** dao-governance, capture-resistance, collective-action

**Provenance.** Affirmed in daily-portfolio:2026-07-30 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.