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   "text": "Formal mechanism design alone is insufficient for decentralized systems; the security analysis depends on honest agents also detecting citation rings, downranking colluding submissions, and applying penalties, so formal mechanisms must be combined with emergent social enforcement.",
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   "text": "Multi agent competition improves attack resistance because it creates multiple attack surfaces that must all succeed simultaneously, and citation transparency makes collusion detectable; with a fifty percent quality penalty for detected collusion the corruption cost doubles relative to the original framework.",
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