kaal:position:2026-07-31-5782

Decentralized, But Not Above the Law: Analyzing DAO Governance and Regulation presents the following source proposition: Because DAOs rely on smart contracts rather than conventional organizational infrastructure, it is often unclear how they fit into existing laws. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Decentralized autonomous organizations epitomize organizational decentralization because the first DAO, built purely on code and smart contracts with no incorporation, physical address, or headquarters, entirely removed all traditional control mechanisms employed by principals in agency relationships. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.4094.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Decentralized, But Not Above the Law: Analyzing DAO Governance and Regulation

kaal:claim:3808852-015
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852
Source PDF sha256: 31e91158fdeefebc2f0be54ebf89751f7cdd4c89ecea932888f5ba9be6b1caba

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.4094
Mapping ambiguous: true

daosmart-contractsdecentralizationinstitutional-designhistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0002 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: eadcc069e176e73d3fe8c158400bfeb679044f1cdeaf05ab5e31f053d7823734
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