kaal:position:2026-07-31-1423

What can blockchain do and cannot do? should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that Because blockchain based contracts are immutable, they cannot be altered by judicial order, which creates enforceability problems whenever a dispute arises outside the scope of the code, such as defective performance or unforeseen circumstances. The current metadata indicates a plausible connection through blockchain governance, but the defensible response is a qualification until the source text confirms agreement, scope, methods, and limitations.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

disputes falling outside the coded parameters
post-deployment execution on an immutable ledger
External evidence level: abstract indexed.
Mapping review tier: mapping review before claim review.
The literature-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and should not be treated as a settled equivalence.

Current debate

What can blockchain do and cannot do?

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:5554218-007
Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218
Source PDF sha256: 55738b4035a91b70aa2ddaa127552fe4b373ec641afee2719fbdcabebdcbea44

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: mapping review before claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.309
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

smart-contracts

Provenance

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0006 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: c2fa5660d5a9fc6c7df2da0da9dd0dffd0293c9eb328be46f2f801f6ca3b1dc3
curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions/2026-07-31-1423.md | sha256sum