# kaal:claim:4529715-036

**Claim.** Requiring governance tokens to be earned through contribution rather than purchased, as GDN DAO does, leaves only minimal risk of 51 percent and sock puppet attacks even under a one token one vote structure.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- one token one vote with non purchasable tokens

**Source quote.**

> While the voting structure of the DAO is a 1 token = 1 vote, tokens are not available for purchase. All governance tokens must be earned through contributions to the community.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis* (2023), Appendix, Media DAOs, GDN DAO, page 146

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis (2023). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4529715

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**Topics.** dao, governance-design, tokenomics, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** dao, earned-governance-tokens, 51-percent-attack, sock-puppet-attack, gdn-dao

**Related claims.**

- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-027
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-038
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-013

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