# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6084

**Affirmed position.** Use of Blockchain in Governance: A Systematic Literature Review presents the following source proposition: It enables the creation of self-executable digital contracts i.e. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that A smart contract is computer program code that enables the verification, execution and enforcement of specific terms and conditions of a contractual arrangement. 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: 0.401.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Use of Blockchain in Governance: A Systematic Literature Review: https://doi.org/10.14569/ijacsa.2019.0100585

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3227967-021: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-021

**Scholarly basis.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

**Source PDF sha256.** `f6e13b956f864ab32ec3305d095a35a127770327d75b3688f785cefc437d369f`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

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

**Mapping confidence.** 0.401  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** smart-contracts, blockchain, law-and-legal-systems, historical-response, scholarly-literature, openalex

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0003 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.