# kaal:claim:3782220-025

**Claim.** Identifying a network's values is not an academic exercise: values determine goals, goals determine how rewards and punishments are set up, and that reward structure determines the network's future and whether it survives.

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

**Holds when.**

- any network, society, or DAO

**Source quote.**

> Your network's values determine your goals, which determine how your rewards and punishments are set up, which determine your net- work's future and whether it will survive.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization* (2021), Integrating polar values, page 8

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Transcendental Unifying Values for Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782220

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**Topics.** risk-and-incentives, governance-design

**Keywords.** incentive-design, governance-design, values, reward-structure, survival

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