# kaal:position:2026-08-08-232

**Affirmed position.** 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.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-08-08

**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: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.168536171.12781008/v1

**Extends.** kaal:claim:3227967-021: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-021

**Scholarly basis.** 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 level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping 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 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.