# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6370

**Affirmed position.** Business model digitalization and decentralization through nonfungible tokens (NFTs): multicase research presents the following source proposition: Originality/value This study contributes to the specialized literature on the relationship between digital NFT innovation and related BM changes in different market niches within the digital marketplace ecosystem. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Blockchain-based smart contracts in digital marketplaces are the technology most likely to extend and lead the decentralization of the relationship between businesses and their counterparties. 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: 0.3503.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Business model digitalization and decentralization through nonfungible tokens (NFTs): multicase research: https://doi.org/10.1108/medar-07-2024-2561

**Extends.** kaal:claim:2922176-020: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2922176-020

**Scholarly basis.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176

**Source PDF sha256.** `fa4e986917d437cb1504281e7b986be2698e9507d8feaf426c9d7d1754ca882c`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

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

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3503  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** blockchain, smart-contracts, decentralization, economics, historical-response, scholarly-literature, openalex

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0004 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.