kaal:position:2026-07-31-6680

Towards Secure and Trusted-by-Design Smart Contracts presents the following source proposition: Distributed immutable ledgers, or blockchains, allow the secure digitization of evidential transactions without relying on a trusted third-party. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Peer-to-peer transactions are possible because a distributed consensus model has network nodes verify, validate and audit transactions before and after execution, and this is often safer than routing transactions through a single trusted third-party intermediary. 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: 0.4165.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Towards Secure and Trusted-by-Design Smart Contracts

kaal:claim:3227933-013
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933
Source PDF sha256: a9e9660c4dc25a2202f1da4e762f5885256e05f68c53ca51942f5833a7a4c108

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.4165
Mapping ambiguous: true

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Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0005 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 4f778dcab9b62fcc58ec79448a8090b9c807a0a92e60318a2fa74c5c9e3622b1
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