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Turning Fragile DAOs into Legal Runtimes

Friday, September 18, 2026 • Swiss DAO Researcher Lukas Küng interviews Legal Engineer Kyle MacLean Smith on how decentralized organizations survive corporate liability, replace paper contracts with computational state machines, and code human accountability into execution gates.

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👤 Speaker & Interviewer Profile

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Lukas Küng

DAO Researcher • ZHAW / UNIC / DAWO Organizing Chair

Lukas Küng is a prominent Swiss academic researcher specializing in Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) business value and governance at the ZHAW School of Management and Law and the University of Nicosia (IFF). He serves as a core organizing committee member and track chair for the European DAO Workshop (DAWO24, DAWO25 in Zurich, DAWO26 in Winterthur) and is co-author of Mastering DAOs: A Practical Guidebook.

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Kyle MacLean Smith

Lead Legal Engineer • LexClinic Education Inc.

Lead Legal Engineer at LexClinic Education Inc. pioneering smart legal wrappers, computational contract runtimes, and AI verification gates. Architect of time-sharded metagit databases and ERC-7827 non-fungible governance attestations connecting natural language legal specifications with EVM state machines.

Interview Overview & Core Themes

In this deep-dive academic dialogue, Lukas Küng and Kyle MacLean Smith explore how DAOs can escape general partnership joint-liability traps, why paper contracts are obsolete specification models, and how smart legal wrappers code human accountability directly into smart contract verification gates.

🏛️ Surviving Corporate Law

Unwrapped DAOs default to general partnerships with joint and several liability. Legal wrappers establish limited liability boundaries for contributors.

💻 Computational Runtimes

Replacing static paper specs with executable state machines that enforce covenant terms automatically upon state transitions.

👥 Human Accountability

Coding fiduciary duties and off-chain human performance into deterministic AI verification gates prior to token vault unlocks.

📐 Constitutional Math

Mapping constitutional rights and automated market maker (AMM) bonding curves into mathematical governance invariants.

Lukas Küng & Kyle MacLean Smith — Full Audio Session

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🎥 Interview Explainer Video Modules (11 Clips)

Module 1: How DAOs Survive Traditional Corporate Law

Module 1.1: LexDAO Foundations

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Module 1.2: Evolution of DAO Governance

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Module 1.3: DAO 2.0 Architectures

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Module 2: Replacing Paper Contracts with Computational Runtimes

Module 2.1: Computational Runtimes

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Module 2.2: Upgrading Law for Info Age

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Module 2.3: Evolution of Jurisprudence

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Module 3: Coding Human Accountability into DAOs

Module 3.1: Law at Hyper-Speed

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Module 3.2: Decoding DAOs

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Module 3.3: The DAO Paradigm Shift

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Module 4: The Microchip Math of Constitutional Rights

Module 4.1: Token Rights & Legal Covenants

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Module 4.2: The Governance Math Paradox

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