# Corruption cost

`kaal:entity:corruption-cost`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `corruption-cost`. 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

4 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6192998-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-009) [empirical/evidenced] -- Under the 2018 validation pool design, the cost of corrupting the system to reach fifty one percent control is at minimum twice the total reputation value of the system.
  > This is the fundamental security bound: corrupting the system costs at minimum 2× the total reputation value.34
  Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998
- [6192998-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-010) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The two times corruption cost bound of the 2018 framework is conditional, not general: subsequent analysis shows it holds only under specific conditions that may not obtain in practice.
  > However, subsequent analysis reveals this bound applies only under specific conditions that may not hold in practice. This is a limitation we address in Section IV.F.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998
- [6192998-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-032) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > This improved security stems from multi-agent competition creating multiple attack surfaces that must all succeed simultaneously, combined with citation transparency enabling collusion detection.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998
- [6192998-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6192998-037) [predictive/argued] -- Citation weighted systems become more secure over time at a faster rate than binary systems, because time to corruption scales superlinearly with accumulated transaction volume.
  > This extends the security analysis from Calcaterra, Kaal, and Andrei (2018, 15-18) to demonstrate that citation-weighted systems become more secure over time at a faster rate than binary systems.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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