kaal:position:2026-07-31-1950

NFTs, DAOs AND SMART CONTRACTS: WHERE IS THE DECENTRALISATION? should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that A decentralized autonomous organization is merely computer code with no directors, managers or employees, its governance structure built with software, code and smart contracts running on a public decentralized blockchain platform. 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

DAOs built on public platforms, in most cases Ethereum
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

NFTs, DAOs AND SMART CONTRACTS: WHERE IS THE DECENTRALISATION?

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3227967-023
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967
Source PDF sha256: f6e13b956f864ab32ec3305d095a35a127770327d75b3688f785cefc437d369f

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: mapping review before claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.2645
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

daosmart-contractsblockchaingovernance-designcorporate-governance

Provenance

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0008 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: e45824fb0bb22de3113835f9c88583145929c3f07eb790ed2d0c66aa9f72cb49
curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions/2026-07-31-1950.md | sha256sum