# kaal:claim:3128900-024

**Claim.** Staking creates disincentives for malicious actors, and it is this disincentive structure that makes the network both more efficient and attack resistant.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- workers and verifiers who have reputation tokens at stake

**Source quote.**

> Semada staking mechanism creates disincentives for malicious actors, enhancing the efficiency of the Semada Network and making it attack resistant.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation* (2018), 3.2 Reputation Staking Mechanism, page 12

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `381d72e85d976e2af852e8ec3bba87bc6a05ccb3349a2c3dd6f9e64de96ab4b0` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202018%20-%20Decentralized%20Mechanical%20Turk%20Through%20Verified%20Reputation.pdf

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

**Keywords.** reputation-staking, malicious-actors, attack-resistance, incentive-design

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