# Sem token

`kaal:entity:sem-token`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `sem-token`. 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 1 works, 2018 to 2018.

**2018**

- [3125822-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-005) [mechanism/asserted] -- When a fee bearing evidence of work post enters the platform, half the newly minted sem tokens are staked in the poster's name as an upvote bet and the other half are staked against the post and left unassigned, so the poster's only direct reward for off-platform work is a contested stake.
  > Half the new sem tokens are staked in the poster's name as a bet that the work done is accurate and improves the expertise (this stake is their only direct reward for the off-platform work). The other half of the newly minted sem tokens are staked against the post, and left unassigned.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822
- [3125822-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-006) [mechanism/asserted] -- Every validation request opens a betting pool in which experts stake expertise specific sem tokens for or against the post, the winning side splits the losing side's stakes, and upvotes win ties.
  > Every validation request creates a validation pool, where experts stake expertise-specific sem tokens to approve or disapprove the post. The winners split the losers' stakes. (Figure 4.) Upvotes win ties.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822
- [3125822-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-021) [empirical/argued] -- Acquiring 51 percent of the tokens by paying fees and winning betting pools costs roughly six times the value of the entire quantity of sem tokens in a healthy expertise, even when the bench makes no effort at all to police the incoming fees.
  > a reasonable estimate for the price of this attack (even when the bench makes absolutely no effort to police this action) is 6 times the value of the entire quantity of sem tokens in existence in the expertise, when the expertise is healthy, i.e., earning fees.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822
- [3125822-049](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-049) [design/asserted] -- Reputation on the platform is domain specific by construction: a separate type of ERC-20 token is minted for each expertise tag, so reputation earned in one domain confers no voting power, salary claim, or selection weight in another.
  > Separate types of ERC-20 tokens are minted for each expertise tag.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

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