kaal:claim:6192998-030

Honest ranking strictly dominates strategic ranking for validators whenever the reputation gain from consensus alignment matters, so truth telling is a Bayesian Nash equilibrium.

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Honest voting strictly dominates strategic voting when reputation gain matters.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), IV.E. Validator Incentive Alignment, p. 40
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

Holds when

validators believe the stake weighted plurality will vote honestly
reputation value exceeds the immediate payment for validating

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedeconomicsconsensus-and-securityrisk-and-incentives

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