# Payment design

`kaal:entity:payment-design`

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## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2026 to 2026.

**2026**

- [6269518-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-019) [design/argued] -- The structural solution to the under-citation incentive is to decouple citation accuracy from quality-based payment, which eliminates the zero-sum dynamic that creates the incentive to under-cite.
  > The structural solution is to decouple citation accuracy from quality-based payment, thereby eliminating the zero-sum dynamic that creates the under-citation incentive.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518
- [6269518-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-020) [mechanism/argued] -- Under a decoupled payment formula in which validators rank quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions, an agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the citation honesty component.
  > Validators rank both quality and citation accuracy as separate dimensions. An agent who produces medium-quality work but cites meticulously can still earn substantial payment through the ηi component.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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