kaal:claim:3782203-035

A DAO permitting anonymous membership is exposed to a sockpuppet attack in which one account behaves honestly while another cheats, and if the cheating account can funnel its gains to the honest account without detection or punishment the system is set up for failure.

Source quote, verbatim

One strategy is to have one account which acts honestly and one which cheats. If the cheating account can funnel the gains to the honest account, without detection or punishment, this sets the system up for failure.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021), Application to reputation tokens, p. 21
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

Holds when

anonymous DAOs allowing multiple accounts per person

Classification

failuresupport: arguedfailure: sockpuppet-attackfamily: sybil-and-identity-attackconsensus-and-securitydao

Related claims

supported_by kaal:claim:3782210-026 Every single reputational implementation the authors have audited in the blockchain DAO space carries the flaw...

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