# Availability stake

`kaal:entity:availability-stake`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `availability-stake`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2018.

**2018**

- [3125822-031](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-031) [condition/argued] -- Smart contracts give insurance against an unfair settlement only under stated conditions, among them that anonymous arbiters are chosen randomly with weight given by their availability stakes and that arbiters must post evidence of work for evaluation by the forum.
  > Further, smart contracts written as suggested above give insurance an unfair settlement will never occur if 1) anonymous arbiters are randomly chosen according to the weight of their availability stakes, 2) arbiters are required to post evidence-of-work posts for evaluation by the forum
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822
- [3266953-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-026) [mechanism/asserted] -- Producing a bad block is punished by slashing, since the producer loses the availability stakes they posted to be considered in the random selection of block producers.
  > Producing bad blocks is slashed because the bad block producer will lose their availability stakes (the tokens the producer staked to be considered for the random selection of block producers) in the validation pool.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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