# kaal:claim:3266953-023

**Claim.** A successful Semada block producer wins half of the newly minted reputation tokens for a block while the remaining members share the other half for policing the block in the validation pool.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- each produced and validated block

**Source quote.**

> they win the lottery of half of a great deal of new reputation tokens if they are chosen while the rest of the members share the other half of newly minted reputation tokens for policing the block in the validation pool.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Anchor Protocol, page 16

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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

**Keywords.** block-rewards, validation-pool, reputation-minting, incentive-design

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-004

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