# kaal:position:2026-07-31-7920

**Affirmed position.** 7. Principal and agent states the retrieved proposition: Principals and agents have certain rights against each other which spring from their agency relationship, most of which may be contractual. Kaal's protected corpus separately states: Blockchain provides an alternative governance mechanism that eliminates agency costs, meaning the principal's cost of supervising agents, by creating trust in the contractual relationship between principal and agent. The defensible response is a qualification limited to the shared issue identified in the review rationale. This abstract-level comparison does not establish broader agreement, causation, empirical support, or equivalence.

**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: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification.
- Primary mapping confidence: 0.4833.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.
- Crossref abstract-indexed proposition only; full text not independently reviewed.
- Ambiguity is preserved because the review supports comparison, not equivalence or endorsement.

**Current debate.** 7. Principal and agent: https://doi.org/10.1093/he/9780199284481.003.0007

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3373393-018: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-018

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Solutions for Agency Problems in Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3373393

**Source PDF sha256.** `4d1424b9ba9aff8a61bc7a0dddd02cded93785e5843685dde76c07dcdb23961e`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification

**Mapping confidence.** 0.4833  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** blockchain, corporate-governance, reputation, governance-design, historical-response, scholarly-literature, crossref

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0011-reviewed-v3 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.