# kaal:claim:6269518-002

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

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

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), I. Introduction, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, reputation, governance-design

**Keywords.** knowledge-attribution, reputation-systems, governance-architecture, citation-mechanism

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