# kaal:position:2026-07-31-5929

**Affirmed position.** Legal tech and blockchain for corporate governance and shareholders presents the following source proposition: The chapter provides a general introduction to the agency problem and the associated agency costs between shareholders and their corporate board members in corporate governance and introduces blockchain technology as a solution to the agency problem, thereby discussing the decentralized autonomous organization (hereinafter: The DAO). This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim 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 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.

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

**Holds when.**

- 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: 0.3596.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Legal tech and blockchain for corporate governance and shareholders: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788111300.00015

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3373393-018: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-018

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Solutions for Agency Problems in Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3373393

**Source PDF sha256.** `4d1424b9ba9aff8a61bc7a0dddd02cded93785e5843685dde76c07dcdb23961e`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** moderate-confidence claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3596  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** blockchain, corporate-governance, reputation, governance-design, historical-response, scholarly-literature, openalex

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0002 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.