GaaP composes four interdependent layers — a WDAG substrate with non-transferable reputation staking, a translation and validation layer, deterministic cryptoeconomic enforcement, and a temporal layer in which the system governs its own evolution — each independently necessary and none individually sufficient.
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GaaP composes four interdependent layers, illustrated in Fig. 1. Each layer is independently necessary and none is individually sufficient.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Governance as a Product (GaaP): A Reputation-Weighted Institutional Architecture for Autonomous AI Agent Governance (2026), IV. The GaaP Architecture, p. 2 https://ssrn.com/abstract=6886078 · source PDF
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