# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6098

**Affirmed position.** DAOs Are Adaptive Governance Engines presents the following source proposition: In New Institutional Economics, firms exist to minimize the transaction costs of using a market. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Smart contracts enabled by blockchain technology allow comprehensive, near error free, and zero transaction and agency cost coordination of 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.

**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: 0.3606.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** DAOs Are Adaptive Governance Engines: https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198946113.003.0008

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3373393-025: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-025

**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.** 0.3606  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** smart-contracts, economics, corporate-governance, institutional-design, 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.