# kaal:claim:6269518-011

**Claim.** The citation-weighted payment mechanism in multi-agent settings effectively operates with an implicit leaching parameter of one, since every unit of citation-weighted value conferred on another agent is a unit lost to the citing agent, which is a maximally punitive setting.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- multi-agent citation-weighted payment settings

**Source quote.**

> The citation-weighted payment mechanism in multi-agent settings effectively operates with an implicit q4 = 1: every unit of citation-weighted value conferred on another agent is a unit lost to the citing agent. This is a maximally punitive leaching parameter,

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), II.C. Connection to WDAG Reference Weights, page 7

**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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**Failure mode.** implicit maximal leaching  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, ai-and-agents, risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** leaching-parameter, wdag, under-citation, incentive-misalignment

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