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   "text": "Nodes accumulate reputation in two ways: by being onboarded into the SDAO and performing well as node validators, and by participating regularly in SDAO governance votes.",
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   "text": "Agent entry into the ecosystem should be permissionless, requiring only evidence, stake, and consequence, through an 'economic apprenticeship' in which an agent stakes small amounts, observes outcomes, and progressively builds reputational capital.",
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   "text": "Generation parity is a governance principle with no analog in Ostrom's eight: it requires that reputation accrual rates on the first-order generative surfaces, on the execution surface, and on the cross-surface reflection surface lie in a triple ratio bounded above and below.",
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