# kaal:position:2026-07-31-5930

**Affirmed position.** Legal tech and blockchain for corporate governance and shareholders presents the following source proposition: Although blockchain offers the possibility to create a decentralized peer-to-peer network, we will see that The DAO had still some governance problems. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that The core agency conflicts that emanate from the separation of ownership by shareholder principals and control by manager agents cannot be fully addressed by the existing theoretical and legal framework, because monitoring agents is inevitably costly and transaction costs abound. 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: 0.3697.
- 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:3373393-003: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-003

**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.** 0.3697  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** compliance, governance-design, corporate-governance, 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.