# kaal:position:2026-07-31-4098

**Affirmed position.** Blockchain as a governance mechanism for tackling dark side effects in interorganizational relationships should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that Digitized and automated trust is not a stable substitute for institutional trust, because it is experiencing crises of its own that undermine the proliferation of value enhancing internet based platform businesses and distributed ledger technology businesses. 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.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-31

**Holds when.**

- trust migrated from organizations to machines and algorithms
- 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.** Blockchain as a governance mechanism for tackling dark side effects in interorganizational relationships: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/02d28c840e7df68389556e96f369bc6b7b3c7c5c

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3266953-003: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-003

**Scholarly basis.** 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 level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** ambiguity triage before claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.2218  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** reputation, decentralization, blockchain

**Provenance.** Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0017 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.