kaal:position:2026-07-31-5749

Toward Web 4.0: Bidirectional Trust between AI Agents and Blockchain should be assessed against Kaal's source-bound position that Blockchain provides an alternative governance mechanism that eliminates agency costs, meaning the principal's cost of supervising agents, by creating trust in the contractual relationship between principal and agent. The external source's verified abstract presents this proposition: Autonomous AI agents are increasingly deployed on blockchain platforms, yet the design space that governs their interaction remains poorly understood. The defensible response is a qualification: the source is pertinent to the Kaal position, but agreement, extension, contradiction, and scope should not be strengthened beyond the retrieved evidence.

• The response remains limited to the source proposition and evidence retrieved in this reconciliation cycle.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: legacy curated mapping review.
• Mapping confidence is intentionally unscored.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Toward Web 4.0: Bidirectional Trust between AI Agents and Blockchain

kaal:claim:3373393-018
Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Solutions for Agency Problems in Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3373393
Source PDF sha256: 4d1424b9ba9aff8a61bc7a0dddd02cded93785e5843685dde76c07dcdb23961e

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: legacy curated mapping review
Mapping confidence: unscored
Mapping ambiguous: true

blockchaincorporate-governancereputationgovernance-designhistorical-responsescholarly-literature

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:legacy-reconciliation-0001 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 9dc4a207814a893169e003539d3048ab9405f81232aa383ac5d18a1f171bd92f
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