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   "text": "The final 2021 Casper testnet used perceived validator node uptime as its single rewarding requirement.",
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   "text": "By balancing validator stakes against reputation, HSPoS reaches an equilibrium of incentives in which validators are motivated both to succeed economically as validators and to participate actively in decentralized governance.",
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   "text": "Slashing establishes a Nash equilibrium in which rational validators adhere to honest behavior, because the expected cost of penalties exceeds any short-term gain available from misconduct.",
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   "text": "Validators who align with the stake weighted consensus ranking gain reputation and those who deviate lose it, which carries the winner takes losers' stakes property of the original framework over to ranked voting.",
   "abstract": "Validators who align with consensus gain reputation. Those who deviate lose it. Thus, preserving the winner-takes-losers'-stakes property from the original framework (Calcaterra, Kaal, and Andrei 2018, 7) while extending it to ranked voting.",
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   "text": "Honest ranking strictly dominates strategic ranking for validators whenever the reputation gain from consensus alignment matters, so truth telling is a Bayesian Nash equilibrium.",
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