# kaal:claim:3949098-003

**Claim.** Locking a user's reputation tokens instead of fungible assets would be a leap in efficiency and a powerful economic advantage over traditional finance, but this advantage is conditional on a coherent system that securely tracks the value of a reputation token.

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

**Holds when.**

- a system exists that securely tracks reputation token value

**Source quote.**

> For example, locking users reputation tokens instead of your fungible assets would be a strong leap in efficiency, giving a powerful economic advantage over traditional finance. This requires a coherent system which securely tracks the value of a reputation token.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Reputation as Capital – How DAOs Upgrade Finance* (2021), I. Introduction, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Reputation as Capital – How DAOs Upgrade Finance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3949098

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**Topics.** reputation, economics, tokenomics, defi

**Keywords.** reputation-staking, capital-efficiency, token-valuation, system-requirements, defi

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-027

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