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   "text": "Paying workers a share of incoming compensation pro rata to their reputation scores makes rigor self-enforcing, because workers who do not engage with the required care lose their spot in the reputation rankings and thereby lose their share of the job fee distribution.",
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   "text": "In federated learning, validation pools coordinated by smart contracts should dispense rewards pro rata to the reputation a node has accumulated through productive work, so that incentives track a node's actual contribution to the model's learning rather than mere participation.",
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