# kaal:claim:3782205-022

**Claim.** Without a secure and meaningful reputation system, none of the other aspects of the decentralized economy will be effective, which makes reputation a precondition for the rest.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Without building a secure and meaningful reputational system, none of the other aspects of the decen- tralized economy will be effective.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Chapter 9. Eight institutions, page 3

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782205

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**Failure mode.** Absent reputation layer  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation, decentralization, economics

**Keywords.** reputation, preconditions, decentralized-economy, sequencing

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782216-001

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