# kaal:claim:3782217-011

**Claim.** In the SchellingCoin approach to oracle design, members stake reputation tokens on their answer to the question a DApp is asking and are rewarded according to how close they came to the resulting median value, which functions as the game theoretic Schelling point.

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

**Holds when.**

- questions with a verifiable focal answer

**Source quote.**

> The idea is to have your Oracle DAO members stake their reputation tokens on their answer to a question a DApp is asking. Then you reward those closer to the resulting median value

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), SchellingCoin protocol, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `358779557d8e7dcd101720ca0fad90b9146d24f1c7c03909eb431fcf1fb7e103` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20The%20Importance%20of%20History%20In%20Decentralization.pdf

**Topics.** tokenomics, smart-contracts, reputation

**Keywords.** schellingcoin, oracles, reputation-staking, median, mechanism-design

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