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Difficulty: HardIdentifying Sufficient Assumptions

Under current legal frameworks, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) can be held legally liable for damages only if it features either a central executive committee or a pre-coded compensation fund. The Aetherium Network is a DAO that was recently held legally liable for damages by a federal court. However, an exhaustive audit of the network's architecture proves that it lacks any pre-coded compensation fund. Therefore, it is clear that the Aetherium Network must utilize a weighted-voting governance protocol.

Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the conclusion to be properly drawn?

  1. Any decentralized autonomous organization that possesses a central executive committee utilizes a weighted-voting governance protocol.Answer
  2. B
    A decentralized autonomous organization utilizes a weighted-voting governance protocol only if it possesses a central executive committee.
  3. C
    Decentralized autonomous organizations that do not possess a central executive committee do not utilize a weighted-voting governance protocol.
  4. D
    A weighted-voting governance protocol is the most efficient method for a decentralized autonomous organization to establish a central executive committee.
  5. E
    A pre-coded compensation fund is structurally incompatible with a weighted-voting governance protocol in any decentralized autonomous organization.

Answer

The option stating that any decentralized autonomous organization possessing a central executive committee utilizes a weighted-voting governance protocol.
The argument establishes an intermediate conclusion: because the DAO is liable and lacks a compensation fund, it MUST have a central executive committee. However, the author suddenly concludes the DAO has a weighted-voting protocol. To justify this leap, we need a rule stating that having a central executive committee guarantees the use of a weighted-voting protocol. The correct answer provides exactly this universal conditional link.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the conditional rule provided in the first sentence.
Rule: If a DAO is legally liable, it must have a Central Executive Committee (CEC) OR a Pre-coded Compensation Fund (PCF).
Identifying the formal logic relationships is the first step in deduction.
2
Apply the facts about the Aetherium Network to the conditional rule.
Fact 1: Aetherium is legally liable. Deduction: Aetherium has a CEC or a PCF. Fact 2: Aetherium lacks a PCF. Deduction: Aetherium MUST have a CEC.
This establishes an unstated intermediate conclusion that is critical to the argument.
3
Identify the argument's final conclusion and the logical gap.
Conclusion: Aetherium utilizes a weighted-voting governance protocol (WVGP). The gap is between the intermediate conclusion (Aetherium has a CEC) and the final conclusion (Aetherium has a WVGP).
To find a sufficient assumption, you must pinpoint exactly where the author's logic jumps to an unsupported claim.
4
Formulate the sufficient assumption that bridges the gap.
Required Assumption: If a DAO has a CEC, then it utilizes a WVGP (CEC -> WVGP).
Connecting the established fact (CEC) to the unsupported conclusion (WVGP) logically forces the conclusion to be true.

Key Concept

Identifying intermediate conclusions to find the missing sufficient condition that logically guarantees the final conclusion.
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