# Platform incentives

`kaal:entity:platform-incentives`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `platform-incentives`. 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

3 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2022.

**2021**

- [3782217-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-026) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A central authority is perfectly well incentivized to ignore minor problems that only partially eat into its profits, so long as it maintains ultimate control of those profits, which is why platform level abuses persist under centralized ownership.
  > A central authority is perfectly well incentivized to ignore minor problems which only partially eat into their profits, as long as they maintain ultimate control of profits.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

**2022**

- [4021599-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4021599-016) [definitional/argued] -- Utility tokens are tokens with an intrinsic utility for a good or service: they emphasize the uses of the token and typically give users access to a product or service or give rewards that incentivize desirable behavior on the platform.
  > The term utility token is used to identify tokens that have an intrinsic utility for a good or service. Utility tokens emphasize the uses of the token and typically give their users access to a product or service or give rewards to incentivize desirable behavior on the respective platform.25
  Wulf A. Kaal, Securities Versus Utility Tokens (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4021599
- [4021599-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4021599-017) [mechanism/argued] -- Utility tokens operate as an access mechanism: in order to interact with a given platform or use case, users are incentivized to acquire access rights to the product or service by acquiring the utility token.
  > In order to interact with a given platform or use case, users are incentivized to acquire access rights to the product or service through the acquisition of the utility token.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Securities Versus Utility Tokens (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4021599

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