Agreement: SMART CONTRACT AS A FORM OF CIVIL CONTRACT

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-238 · 2026-08-08

Smart Contract as a Form of Civil Contract states that the legal status and legal regulation of smart contracts are uncertain. This supports the regulatory-uncertainty component of Kaal's claim. The abstract proposition does not establish the causes, jurisdictional extent, financial-services scope, or the particular legal reforms required.

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 states that the legal status and legal regulation of smart contracts are uncertain. This independently supports the regulatory-uncertainty component of Kaal's claim, while it does not establish the causes, jurisdictional extent, financial-services scope, or the particular legal reforms required.

Current debate

SMART CONTRACT AS A FORM OF CIVIL CONTRACT

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3227933-024
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 agreement
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

law-and-legal-systems smart-contracts historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0028-global-unique-all-0042-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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