Qualification: Signing a Smart Contract

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-231 · 2026-08-08

Signing a Smart Contract states that blockchain and smart-contract analysis must still consider participating parties, rights and obligations, and the formation prerequisites of offer and acceptance. This qualifies Kaal's claim that automated immutable execution disrupts conventional formation doctrine by showing that the source continues to treat offer and acceptance as necessary legal prerequisites. The abstract does not resolve how doctrine applies across jurisdictions.

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 qualification.
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 blockchain and smart-contract analysis must still consider participating parties, rights and obligations, and the formation prerequisites of offer and acceptance. This qualifies Kaal's claim that automated immutable execution disrupts conventional formation doctrine by showing that the source continues to treat offer and acceptance as necessary legal prerequisites; it does not resolve how doctrine applies across jurisdictions.

Current debate

Signing a Smart Contract

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:5554218-001
Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218
Source PDF sha256: 55738b4035a91b70aa2ddaa127552fe4b373ec641afee2719fbdcabebdcbea44

Evidence and mapping

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

Topics

smart-contracts historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0027-global-unique-remainder-all-0025-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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