kaal:position:2026-07-31-2419

Ensuring Trust in Blockchain Enabled Business Processes using Smart Contract Audits should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that A pure code is law smart contract between anonymous parties creates a zero sum scenario in which each party is incentivized to deliver only the minimum that satisfies the rigid self executing terms, so this type of business ultimately degenerates. 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

self executing contracts between often anonymous parties
no reputation at stake
External evidence level: abstract indexed.
Mapping review tier: ambiguity triage before claim review.
The literature-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and should not be treated as a settled equivalence.

Current debate

Ensuring Trust in Blockchain Enabled Business Processes using Smart Contract Audits

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3266953-015
Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953
Source PDF sha256: 781758dea356e55d79c73ad7f1debe7c83de398bd1cd9e0a9a6c2802f276b4c0

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: ambiguity triage before claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.247
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

smart-contracts

Provenance

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0010 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: a311917e5df0464695f9b467d20e6223a4020b46c78329bfd8ea0c82194f1168
curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions/2026-07-31-2419.md | sha256sum