kaal:position:2026-07-31-4175

Freedom to (Smart) Contract should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound claim that The notion that smart contract agency relationships run exactly as coded with no possibility of agent opportunism is less likely to hold in complex agency relationships, so a decentralized human backstop to code becomes necessary as those relationships grow more complex. 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.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

complex decentralized agency relationships
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

Freedom to (Smart) Contract

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3441904-028
Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904
Source PDF sha256: e6b562527f7f19accaa35491db0a0db168b6a936755e1dca424e9f30bee7a815

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: ambiguity triage before claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.2211
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

smart-contracts

Provenance

Affirmed in historical-backfill:2026-07-31:phase-0017 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

Canonical markdown sha256: 4d37bf7cbc99d3ee30f06604fb771d516d6cc75a82eeab5f9a02c07ceebf26a5
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