# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6504

**Affirmed position.** Decentralization and Disintermediation in Blockchain-based Marketplaces presents the following source proposition: Marketplaces facilitate the exchange of services, goods, and information between individuals and businesses. 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: 0.3805.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Decentralization and Disintermediation in Blockchain-based Marketplaces: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a4f750b6-5ac5-4709-80c5-71eb71ac7b35

**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.** 0.3805  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

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

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0005 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.