Agreement: Smart contracts are likely to have limited application

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-081 · 2026-08-08

Smart contracts are likely to have limited application reports that some governments have amended legislation to include blockchain transactions and that more must follow to provide legal certainty. This independently corresponds to Kaal's claims of regulatory uncertainty and partial legislative adaptation. The abstract does not identify the governments, provisions, or global sufficiency of those amendments.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

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 agreement.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source states that some governments have amended legislation to include blockchain transactions and that more amendments are needed for legal certainty. This corresponds to Kaal's claims of regulatory uncertainty and partial state-law adaptation, but it does not identify the governments, provisions, or global sufficiency of those amendments.

Current debate

Smart contracts are likely to have limited application

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3227933-024
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 and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level agreement
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

law-and-legal-systems smart-contracts historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-remainder-0002-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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