# kaal:claim:3799320-033

**Claim.** Member reputation is inflationary by design, so non staking of reputation tokens or non voting leads to value depreciation, which incentivizes action and makes liveness faults less likely.

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

**Holds when.**

- reputation that depreciates with non-use

**Source quote.**

> reputation is inflationary in the DAO of DAOs design. As such, non-use, i.e., non-staking of reputation tokens or non-voting, would lead to value depreciation, which incentivizes action and thus value enhancement. Liveness faults become less likely.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs* (2021), Reputation-Based Internal Governance, page 21

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320

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**Topics.** reputation, tokenomics, risk-and-incentives, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** liveness-faults, reputation-inflation, participation-incentive, attack-resistance

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-038
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-044
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3981021-031

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