# kaal:claim:5225296-033

**Claim.** Weighted voting reduces Sybil attack success rates by over eighty-five percent, but only where reputation is openly auditable.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- reputation must be openly auditable

**Source quote.**

> Simulations of reputation-based systems suggest that weighted voting reduces Sybil attack success rates by over 85% when reputation is openly auditable

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Cryptographic Foundations and Interdisciplinary Dimensions of the Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS) Conse* (2025), Weighted Voting as a Sybil Attack Defense

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Cryptographic Foundations and Interdisciplinary Dimensions of the Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS) Conse (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5225296

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**Topics.** governance-design, consensus-and-security, compliance, empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** weighted-voting, sybil-defense, auditability, simulation-evidence

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