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   "text": "Market liquidity depends on trustworthiness, and trustworthiness depends on observed momentum: isolated instances of motion are insufficient, because the observations must be collected into a history before they carry weight and meaning.",
   "abstract": "To achieve liquidity, marketplaces must be trustworthy. They need momen- tum. It's not enough to achieve motion in any particular instance. Momentum must be observed to give trust to the marketplace. These observations need to be collected in a history to give them weight and meaning.",
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   "text": "A decentralized oracle is not secure until it has significant momentum and history, and it is not even truly decentralized until it has a large network of active members.",
   "abstract": "A decen- tralized oracle is not secure until it has significant momentum and history—an oracle is not even truly decentralized until this is achieved, until it has a large network of active members.",
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   "text": "Review creates a decentralized history for a DAO, and that history gives the organization momentum, gives meaning and focus to perception, and is the basis for making governance, understood as steering, more effective.",
   "abstract": "Review helps create a decentralized history for a DAO, which gives them momentum. History gives meaning and focus to our perceptions. History is the basis for making governance (steering) more effective.",
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   "text": "Long run stability of a decentralized organization requires the momentum gained from a clear history, but momentum is not sufficient: if the system is not moving toward a healthy and productive goal it will not last long.",
   "abstract": "To keep a decentralized organization stable in the long run, they need this mo- mentum gained from a clear history. But momentum toward what purpose? If the system is not moving toward a healthy and productive goal, it will not last long.",
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