# kaal:claim:5225296-039

**Claim.** The defenses that secure SPoS may not scale: frequent reputation updates and zk-SNARK verifications may strain resources under high transaction loads, potentially requiring sharding or layer-2 solutions.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** speculative

**Holds when.**

- under high transaction loads

**Source quote.**

> frequent updates and zk-SNARK verifications may strain resources; sharding or layer-2 solutions could optimize performance

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Cryptographic Foundations and Interdisciplinary Dimensions of the Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS) Conse* (2025), Future Directions and Interdisciplinary Research

**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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**Failure mode.** reputation-update-scalability-strain  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** scalability, resource-strain, sharding, layer-2

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