# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6665

**Affirmed position.** Role of Smart Contracts in Blockchain presents the following source proposition: Smart contracts and Blockchain enhance transparency and trust among players, while reducing infrastructure, transaction and administrative expenses. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Automating smart contracts under the code is law paradigm incentivizes unethical behavior by enabling anonymous, opportunistic action, which reduces repeat business and undermines the minimization of transaction costs. 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: 0.3896.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Role of Smart Contracts in Blockchain: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781394229512.ch2

**Extends.** kaal:claim:5554218-022: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5554218-022

**Scholarly basis.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218

**Source PDF sha256.** `55738b4035a91b70aa2ddaa127552fe4b373ec641afee2719fbdcabebdcbea44`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

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

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3896  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** smart-contracts, 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.