# kaal:claim:3652481-031

**Claim.** Reputation based staking removes the corruptive elements of fungible tokens because a third party is less likely to be able to take over a non fungible asset such as reputation that was organically grown and maintained through actual expertise in the DAO's subject matter.

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

**Holds when.**

- reputation is non fungible and expertise based

**Source quote.**

> The corruptive elements of fungible assets/tokens are removed because third parties are less likely able to take over a non-fungible asset, such as reputation, that is organically grown and maintained through actual expertise in a given DAO subject matter.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design* (2020), IV.1.b On-Chain Governance, page 39

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481

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**Topics.** reputation, governance-design

**Keywords.** reputation-staking, non-fungible-assets, corruption, voting-design

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-041
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-028

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