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Because citation integrity determines both economic reward and governance power in on-chain reputation systems, the citation mechanism is a load bearing structural element of the entire governance architecture rather than an academic courtesy.

and when the perceived value of contributions is itself a function of how subsequent work references prior work, the integrity of the citation mechanism becomes a load-bearing structural element of the entire governance architecture.

Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), I. Introduction, p. 4
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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

• reputation tokens are minted and allocated based on perceived value of contributions
• perceived value depends on how later work references prior work

definitionalsupport: arguedcitation-and-knowledgereputationgovernance-design

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