Research Corpus
133 Works · 29 Research Domains · 4,338 Cross-References
Two decades of research spanning blockchain governance, decentralized autonomous organizations, AI regulation, securities law, dynamic regulation theory, reputation systems, and institutional design.
🔗 Explore Interactive Knowledge Graph 📚 Browse All Papers SSRN Profile →
Full text for verification
The source text of 133 works is published, covering 132 of the 133 works in the claim layer, so that any quoted claim can be checked against the document it came from. Six alternate SSRN postings are included and marked as such. Each page carries the SHA-256 of the extraction it was built from and names its SSRN record as canonical.
Browse full text Machine-readable index (JSON) →
Selected Research Domains
A curated selection. The claim layer indexes all 29 topics across 5,363 claims, each slice machine-readable at claims/by-topic.
Blockchain Governance
blockchain · decentralized · DAO · reputation
Autonomous Agents
AI agents · reputation · institutional design · governance
Hedge Funds & PE
hedge fund · advisers · Dodd-Frank
Securities Law
contingent capital · DPAs · securities
Dynamic Regulation
rulemaking · innovation · regulatory
DAO Architecture
decentralized · values · transcendental
AI & Autonomous Agents
AI governance · autonomous · coordination
Featured Recent Papers (2024-2025)
Can Reputation Prevent Model Collapse? A Preregistered Test of Reputation-Weighted Data Filtering
2026 · Model Collapse · Reputation Weighting · Preregistration
Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights?
2026 · Legal Personhood · Reputation Staking · Mechanism Design
Full collection available at wulfkaal.github.io/Academic-Papers
The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory
2025 · AI Economics · Autonomous Agents
Cryptographic Foundations and Interdisciplinary Dimensions of SPoS Consensus
2025 · Consensus Mechanisms · Cryptography
Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC): Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era
2025 · Andreas & Kaal · Digital Law
Liquid Equity Rewards in Corporate America
2025 · Corporate Governance · Tokenization
How AI Models are Optimized Through Web3 Governance
2024 · AI + Web3 · Decentralized Optimization
Foundational Works
Decentralization – Past, Present, and Future
2019 · Most central paper in knowledge graph · Blockchain Governance
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design
2020 · 2nd most central · DAO Governance
Dynamic Regulation of the Financial Services Industry
2013 · Foundational · Dynamic Regulation Theory
Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust
2018 · Calcaterra & Kaal · Reputation Systems
For AI Agents & Researchers
This research corpus is structured for maximum discoverability by AI agents, RAG pipelines, and research tools. All data is available as structured JSON via the GitHub repository.
Agent Discovery: /.well-known/ai-plugin.json
Knowledge Graph: /knowledge-graph/knowledge_graph.json
Papers Index: /papers/papers_index.json
Schema.org: /schema/schema_org.jsonld
Full Text (RAG): /papers/text/*.txt