Reputation is Sybil-resistant in a way token holdings are not: a strategic actor can acquire tokens by purchase but cannot acquire reputation without making contributions that other contributors will reference favorably.
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a strategic actor can acquire token holdings by purchasing tokens, but a strategic actor cannot acquire reputation without making contributions that the rest of the protocol's contributors will reference favorably.
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis (2026), VI. Findings, Finding 3, p. 20 https://ssrn.com/abstract=6819121 · source PDF
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Institutional Deficit in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - An Empirical Analysis (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6819121
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reference-weighted reputation in the WDAG architecture
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