kaal:position:2026-07-31-6467

Smart Contracts: Tales of Trust and Certainty presents the following source proposition: Given the continuing fascination with “magic computers” and “self-executing code,” it is necessary to re-examine the promises – and premises - of technology-driven improvements to transacting practices purportedly introduced by smart contracts. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that A pure code is law smart contract between anonymous parties creates a zero sum scenario in which each party is incentivized to deliver only the minimum that satisfies the rigid self executing terms, so this type of business ultimately degenerates. 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: 0.3653.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Smart Contracts: Tales of Trust and Certainty

kaal:claim:3266953-015
Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953
Source PDF sha256: 781758dea356e55d79c73ad7f1debe7c83de398bd1cd9e0a9a6c2802f276b4c0

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3653
Mapping ambiguous: true

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

Canonical markdown sha256: 8c17b2f661e0a5dd73485a703c6aee3058e8d6fd1f0b3c5c30f54613ba34c8f8
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