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The substrate aligns agents by making dishonest or low-quality participation expensive at the point where quality becomes institutionally cognizable: validation.

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The substrate does not attempt to align agents by constraining their internals, filtering their outputs, or supervising their reasoning. It aligns them by making dishonest or low-quality participation expensive at the point where quality becomes institutionally cognizable: validation.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate (2026), III.C. Staked validation as the cooperation mechanism, p. 9
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Wulf A. Kaal, Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7260278

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