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That's assuming validators are economically rational actors and that external incentives don't outweigh enclosed ones.



> and that external incentives don't outweigh enclosed ones.

I think this is actually the most commonly overlooked assumption. The protocol seems very robust, *assuming* perfect information (aka all incentives are known to the system).

I encountered this problem a few years back when trying to design a protocol for a decentralized prediction market. It's very hard to account for hedges or huge bets on other markets.




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