kaal:position:2026-07-31-6307

Modeling and verification of smart contracts with Abstract State Machines presents the following source proposition: Smart contracts are vulnerable to attacks due to their immutable and public nature, thus, it is important to guarantee the correctness of contracts already at design-time in order to avoid catastrophic events and huge loss of money. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that The immutability of blockchain ledgers is itself a vulnerability, because once a DAO is in operation its essential construction is very difficult to alter should a bug in the code appear. 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: 0.3721.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Modeling and verification of smart contracts with Abstract State Machines

kaal:claim:3652481-009
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481
Source PDF sha256: 530b3a40c244aeca2eb4c53f4c9b4d6b2962bd6be9f92b4ebe17139c17f4c0e0

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3721
Mapping ambiguous: true

smart-contractsconsensus-and-securitydaohistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0004 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 90050b9c88b878781022bbf00890f96ba7840269cfcdb6fb517422c426cbabf2
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