Extension: Human-in-the-Loop Blockchain Governance for Project Change Control: Balancing Smart-Contract Automation and Managerial Discretion

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-219 · 2026-08-08

Human-in-the-Loop Blockchain Governance for Project Change Control states that smart contracts can automate change-control tasks including verifying need and authorization, implementing changes, and auditing the process. This extends Kaal's compliance-automation mechanism into project governance. The retained proposition does not establish that every task is deterministically codable or that automation should displace managerial discretion.

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 smart contracts can automate project change-control tasks including verifying need and authorization, implementing changes, and auditing the process. This extends Kaal's compliance-automation mechanism into project governance, while the retained proposition does not establish that every task is deterministically codable or that automation should displace managerial discretion.

Current debate

Human-in-the-Loop Blockchain Governance for Project Change Control: Balancing Smart-Contract Automation and Managerial Discretion

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:4941807-019
Wulf A. Kaal, AI Governance Via Web3 Reputation System (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4941807
Source PDF sha256: ab66c1e99a88da1fa36b0c6b536df5184231fe6aa427f3dd53287a4e0ac79853

Evidence and mapping

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

Topics

smart-contracts compliance consensus-and-security blockchain governance-design ai-and-agents historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0027-global-unique-oldest-0050-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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