# Reputation accrual

`kaal:entity:reputation-accrual`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `reputation-accrual`. 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

4 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2026.

**2021**

- [3931933-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3931933-033) [mechanism/asserted] -- 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.
  > 1. being onboarded into the SDAO and performing well as node validators, and 2. by participating regularly in the governance votes of SDAO.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Hybrid Secure Proof of Stake (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3931933

**2026**

- [6244278-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-013) [definitional/argued] -- 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.
  > This is what I term "economic apprenticeship": learning the system by staking small amounts, observing outcomes, and progressively building reputational capital.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278
- [6244278-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-017) [mechanism/argued] -- Institutional alignment scales with capability, because a more capable agent accumulates more reputation, holds a deeper stake in the system's integrity, and therefore has stronger alignment with the system's goals.
  > Institutional alignment scales with capability: the more capable the agent, the more reputation it can accumulate, the deeper its stake in the system's integrity, and the stronger its alignment with the system's goals.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278
- [6655138-043](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6655138-043) [normative/argued] -- 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.
  > Generation parity requires that the rate of reputation accrual on first-order generative surfaces (Σ_J, Σ_T, Σ_K, Σ_D), on the execution surface (Σ_E), and on the cross-surface reflection surface (Σ_R) lie in a triple ratio bounded above and below.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Possibility Loops An Operational Architecture for Computative Economics in Agent Coordination Systems (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6655138

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