kaal:position:2026-07-31-202

The centralization-decentralization governance paradox of blockchain in supply chains should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that Almost every blockchain project the authors are aware of is suffering under the centralizing force of competition for equity control and profit, and such projects predictably move toward centralization when unconscious of these forces. The current metadata indicates a plausible connection through decentralization 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.
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Current debate

The centralization-decentralization governance paradox of blockchain in supply chains

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3782193-028
Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193
Source PDF sha256: 74df9cc9a19a098bdacd0424a4174795f6e184f7a31c8ee7541195186701ebd2

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: metadata only
Review tier: high-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.7014
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

blockchaindecentralizationgovernance-design

Provenance

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0001 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

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