Extension: Smart Contracts in Blockchain Technology: A Critical Review

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-086 · 2026-08-08

Smart Contracts in Blockchain Technology: A Critical Review states that decentralized anchoring of smart-contract scripts can make execution of predetermined procedures visible externally. This independently supplies a smart-contract-specific transparency mechanism corresponding to Kaal's broader blockchain-transparency claim. The proposition does not establish truth, trust, intermediary replacement, or effectiveness.

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 extension.
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 decentralized anchoring of smart-contract scripts makes execution of predetermined procedures visible externally. This supplies a smart-contract-specific transparency mechanism corresponding to Kaal's broader blockchain-transparency claim, but it does not establish truth, trust, intermediary replacement, or effectiveness.

Current debate

Smart Contracts in Blockchain Technology: A Critical Review

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3227933-016
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 extension
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

reputation blockchain historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0010-remainder-0003-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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