kaal:position:2026-07-31-5818

Can DAOs Innovate Governance beyond Hierarchies? presents the following source proposition: Decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) represent a novel organisational form made possible by blockchain technology. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Fundamental flaws in the DAO's code allowed hackers to transfer one third of the total contributed funds to a subsidiary account, and this together with other technological limitations ended the initiative, but the authors argue it did not end the underlying vision of decentralized autonomous organization. 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: 0.3781.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Can DAOs Innovate Governance beyond Hierarchies?

kaal:claim:3227933-035
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933
Source PDF sha256: a9e9660c4dc25a2202f1da4e762f5885256e05f68c53ca51942f5833a7a4c108

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3781
Mapping ambiguous: true

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

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