# kaal:claim:3125822-010

**Claim.** The chosen expert is deliberately not paid directly out of the fee but only indirectly in newly minted tokens, because the architecture secures itself by making reputation more valuable than any one time payment.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to off-platform work engaged through the platform

**Source quote.**

> One counterintuitive element is that the chosen expert is not paid directly in fees, only indirectly in newly minted tokens. The platform was designed to ensure security, and encourage maximal productive cooperation, by valuing reputation over all else.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, *Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A* (2018), 3.2.4 Contract freedom and fees, page 12

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

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**Topics.** reputation, risk-and-incentives, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** indirect-payment, reputation-primacy, incentive-design, security

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