kaal:position:2026-07-31-1723

The Study of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)in Social Network should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that The DAO showed that a corporate-type organization can operate with no physical address, no directors, no managers and no employees, with its governance structure built entirely from software, code and smart contracts running on Ethereum. The current metadata indicates a plausible connection through decentralized autonomous organization, 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

the DAO, 2016
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

The Study of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)in Social Network

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3227933-030
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933
Source PDF sha256: a9e9660c4dc25a2202f1da4e762f5885256e05f68c53ca51942f5833a7a4c108

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: mapping review before claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.2788
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

daosmart-contracts

Provenance

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0007 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

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