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   "text": "The treasury creates a self-reinforcing economic flywheel: the more complete and authoritative the UDLC becomes, the larger the treasury, the higher the bounties, the stronger the incentives for top experts, and the faster the Codex evolves.",
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   "text": "The UDLC DAO is the first legal institution that pays its own experts in proportion to ongoing contribution quality out of revenue generated by the value of the Codex itself.",
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   "text": "An agent may fund a proposal it generated itself in order to derisk it for downstream funders, because posting a proposal with the architect's own seed bounty signals commitment and reduces the information asymmetry that would otherwise prevent third-party funding.",
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