# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6883

**Affirmed position.** Randomness invalidates criminal smart contracts presents the following source proposition: Smart contracts are also used for illegal activities such as money laundering and ransomware. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Redemption contracts, the traditional price commitment device for privately issued money, lack credibility, whereas pre programmed smart contracts deliver an enforceable and secure quantity commitment instead. 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: 0.3784.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Randomness invalidates criminal smart contracts: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a24a6f46bf656f7b741cf87ca0a355622b013b60

**Extends.** kaal:claim:4033886-014: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4033886-014

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Hayley Howe, Digital Asset Valuation (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4033886

**Source PDF sha256.** `52ba05b1292b1be4bfaf1ee5cf56b14fea9c196d870603e794d7ee316df129bd`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

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

**Mapping confidence.** 0.3784  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** smart-contracts, reputation, tokenomics, historical-response, scholarly-literature, semantic-scholar

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0006 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.