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   "text": "High-reputation agents that govern protocol evolution act as stewards not because they were programmed to be, but because the institutional architecture makes stewardship the rational strategy for agents with deep accumulated stake.",
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   "text": "Stewardship is not a design choice imposed on governance but the emergent equilibrium of governance conducted by agents with deep accumulated stake, provided governance caps prevent reputation concentration, auditing is transparent, and human primacy in axiomatic framing remains irrevocable.",
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