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   "text": "DAO designs at the beginning of the 2020s did not effectively master the duality of incentives that a workable DAO governance design requires.",
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   "text": "Reputation based staking removes the corruptive elements of fungible tokens because a third party is less likely to be able to take over a non fungible asset such as reputation that was organically grown and maintained through actual expertise in the DAO's subject matter.",
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   "text": "When fungible assets are the dominant incentive design in the governance of DAOs with identifiable actors, rational and opportunistic internal and external participants will typically attempt to corrupt the governance design for their own gain; merit identifiers other than individual identity remove the most corruptive influences.",
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