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   "text": "Token curated registries create economic security against spam through staking and challenge, but they produce only binary accept or reject outcomes and therefore supply no mechanism for nuanced quality assessment or for attributing collaborative contributions.",
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   "text": "Academic citation networks do attribute foundational contributions, but they depend on centralized institutional contexts with stable identities and long horizons, and they suffer citation gaming, prestige bias, and poor real time quality assessment.",
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   "text": "The 2018 system produces only binary accept or reject outcomes, so it has no way to express intermediate assessments such as good but not great, or excellent innovation with poor execution.",
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