kaal:position:2026-07-31-6318

The Promise and Prospects of Blockchain-Based Decentralized Business Models presents the following source proposition: However, ambiguity and confusion exist around the meaning of “decentralized” in the context of blockchain technology-based business models in both research and practice. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Judging by the legal issues that arose around sharing platforms, blockchain-enabled sharing services will likely not be accepted quickly or without resistance from incumbents challenged by new ways of delivering a service or product. 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: 0.3667.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

The Promise and Prospects of Blockchain-Based Decentralized Business Models

kaal:claim:3071378-011
Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378
Source PDF sha256: 125f01674d13b6bb0310c4be7a20ff538dccbc36ecf352770b3c580028387edd

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3667
Mapping ambiguous: true

economicsblockchainhistorical-responsescholarly-literatureopenalex

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

Canonical markdown sha256: 929e0811c1bfaa423bdfdd0b53f17f1dbd928051136f4bc6ce58eb09751c9242
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