# kaal:claim:6269518-020

**Claim.** Under a decoupled payment formula in which validators rank quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions, an agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the citation honesty component.

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

**Holds when.**

- validators rank quality and citation accuracy separately
- payment weight parameter theta strictly below one

**Source quote.**

> Validators rank both quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions. An agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the ηi component.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), IV.B. Solution 2: Decoupled Citation Rewards, page 10

**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, consensus-and-security

**Keywords.** decoupling, citation-honesty-score, validators, payment-design

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