# kaal:claim:5254152-002

**Claim.** Quadratic voting suppresses domination by any single participant because the cost of each additional vote rises quadratically, making concentrated control prohibitively expensive.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- DAOs that implement quadratic vote pricing

**Source quote.**

> The cost of additional votes increases quadratically, making it prohibitively expensive for any one individual to dominate the voting process.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024* (2024), Quadratic Voting, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254152

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `bb2052d809a4615f0f3e2526ba6416293c40d00260149ba4fe6f38addf052796` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20DAO%20Market%20Meta%20Analysis%202024.pdf

**Topics.** governance-design, dao

**Keywords.** quadratic-voting, dao-governance, voting-models, power-concentration

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