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   "text": "Blockchain provides an alternative governance mechanism that eliminates agency costs, meaning the principal's cost of supervising agents, by creating trust in the contractual relationship between principal and agent.",
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   "text": "Validation pools evaluate contributions democratically on the basis of staked tokens, and the outcome of that evaluation governs the minting of new reputation tokens, so community consensus on AI decisions is what determines standing in the system.",
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