Agreement: Don’t Play with Gas: Relating Metrics with Smart Contract Deployment Costs

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-232 · 2026-08-08

Don't Play with Gas: Relating Metrics with Smart Contract Deployment Costs defines smart contracts as computer programs running on blockchains that execute automatically and deterministically when predetermined conditions are met. This independently agrees with Kaal's computer-code and condition-triggered execution definition. The abstract does not establish legal enforceability or performance outside the stated technical model.

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 defines smart contracts as computer programs running on blockchains that execute automatically and deterministically when predetermined conditions are met. This independently agrees with Kaal's computer-code and condition-triggered execution definition, while it does not establish legal enforceability or performance outside the stated technical model.

Current debate

Don’t Play with Gas: Relating Metrics with Smart Contract Deployment Costs

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3227967-021
Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967
Source PDF sha256: f6e13b956f864ab32ec3305d095a35a127770327d75b3688f785cefc437d369f

Evidence and mapping

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

Topics

smart-contracts blockchain law-and-legal-systems 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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