# kaal:claim:3782198-007

**Claim.** If a peer to peer network were decentrally owned by its users, its algorithms could be open source and still remain safe, because the network could reward members for policing exploitation instead of relying on a centralized company to keep the algorithm opaque.

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

**Holds when.**

- requires an incentive design that rewards members for defending the algorithm they own

**Source quote.**

> if the P)P network were decentrally owned by the users them- selves, the algorithms can be open source and still remain safe.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Contemporary Decentralization* (2021), From Social Media to Decentralized Coordination, page 6

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `e7e1378e3eed06cace6534e7792a7307d607d18bc6beb4ac45896476280728e4` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Contemporary%20Decentralization.pdf

**Topics.** open-source-and-code, risk-and-incentives, governance-design

**Keywords.** open-source, incentive-design, p2p, algorithm-governance, web3

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-013

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