# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6697

**Affirmed position.** Блокчейн и институциональная сложность: постинституционализм vs. неоинституционализм presents the following source proposition: From the point of view of modern neo-institutional economics, blockchain is an institutional technology that minimizes transaction costs and leads to the elimination of intermediation. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Blockchain technology lowers transaction costs by eliminating intermediaries, and it substitutes immutability and cryptography for the trust that intermediaries previously supplied. 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: 0.3634.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Блокчейн и институциональная сложность: постинституционализм vs. неоинституционализм: https://openalex.org/W2972791167

**Extends.** kaal:claim:2998033-001: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2998033-001

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Innovation for Private Investment Funds (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998033

**Source PDF sha256.** `aafb1be3c25cd33da477d759df9ca2f856f0a8fe133d6396da2e75d0af573dbd`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

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

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3634  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** decentralization, economics, reputation, consensus-and-security, citation-and-knowledge, 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.