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Example: a theory of why validator sets concentrate on public blockchains

By Noor Haddad (example)

Example: invented check results. All 28 files unchanged since the run, 31 of 33 references found. Details

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Published 2027-03-12 · CC-BY-4.0

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Checked by E2ER

✓The study's fingerprint matches its list of files (version example)
✓28 of 28 files downloaded from GitHub

2027-03-15 10:00 UTC

Reported by the author's own check

✓integrity 28 files hash-verified against provenance.json
○numbers no computed tables in this study
✓citations 33 cite key(s) resolve in refs.bib; snapshot: 31 verified, 2 unverifiable at run time

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How it was produced

Inputs

0 data files
33 references

Process

template Theory construction (E2ET theory lab)
8 specialists (declared)

Evidence

3 result files

Outputs

4 paper files
0 replication files
reused in sofia-lindqvist/platform-governance-theory

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Design

·The phenomenologist refined the seed into a phenomenon analysis with research questions
·The cartographer mapped platform, market-structure and governance theories and their gaps
·The scout director chose a core team of three and a guest pool of three

Checks it would pass

✓Team validation: all personas in the roster, core and guests disjoint
✓Evaluator score 0.74 against the 0.7 threshold in round 3
✓Falsification conditions stated for every proposition

Evidence package

phenomenon.md

landscape.md

cross_pollination_log/

bisociation_log.json

propositions.json

theory_sketch.tex

research_agenda.md

evaluation_log.json

provenance_chain.json

Theory brief

Converged in round 3 of at most 5. Core team (fixed across rounds): Platform Economics, Network Economics, Statistical Mechanics. Guests (rotated): Regulatory Theory, Ecology, Distributed Systems.

P1. The more strongly staking rewards scale with stake, the faster validator concentration rises after launch, because delegators and operators exert a cross-side externality on each other.

P2. Concentration stops rising once the marginal delegator’s switching cost exceeds the reward gap between operators; beyond that point the validator set behaves like an ensemble near equilibrium.

P3. Obligations that attach to operators above a size threshold slow concentration more than protocol-level caps on stake do.

Criterion	Weight	Score
Novelty (Koestler)	0.25	0.78
Explanatory coherence (Thagard)	0.30	0.76
Falsifiability (Popper)	0.25	0.72
Boundary clarity (Whetten)	0.20	0.66
Weighted score (threshold 0.70)		0.73

Theory type: Explanation and prediction (Gregor, type IV).

Contributors

People

·Noor Haddad · github:noor-haddad · orcid:0000-0000-0000-0003 (conceptualization, investigation)

AI

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What it was built with

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Template

template:theory-building

Specialists (8)

Platform Economics Network Economics Statistical Mechanics Regulatory Theory Ecology Distributed Systems synthesizer evaluator

Derived from

No recorded parent object.

Reused in

A theory of self-regulating platform ecosystemsExamplesofia-lindqvist/platform-governance-theory

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Data and outputs (9 files with fingerprints) Example

paper/paper.tex 9357840eebc0

paper/paper.pdf 29d6d8db8540

paper/refs.bib afcdab11e0db

paper/abstract.tex b786ad238196

results/propositions.json 14022f5d9e5f

results/evaluation_log.json 86e639246a76

results/theory_sketch.tex 7bfcc40106cc

reviews/review_aggregation.json 31f9916a4cd6

reviews/citation_integrity.json 516bcfebd162

Description

Data model

Discipline: Information systems
Method family: Theoretical
Design: not specified
Research stage: not specified
Contributors: Noor Haddad (Conceptualization, Investigation)
Usage: not used in published research yet
Source: Example
Record: run:noor-haddad/validator-concentration-theory · JSON

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Knowledge contributions

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This paper was produced with E2ER. The templates, specialists, skills and connectors it used, their authors and their exact versions are listed in its dossier (e2er.org/d/df21c86c698acd79).

Contributor	Building blocks	Roles
E2ET contributors	Theory construction (E2ET theory lab); Platform Economics; Network Economics; Statistical Mechanics; Regulatory Theory; Ecology; Distributed Systems; synthesizer; evaluator	Software, Methodology, Conceptualization

\section*{Knowledge contributions}
This paper was produced with E2ER~\citep{e2er-df21c86c698acd79}. The templates, specialists, skills and connectors it used, their authors and their exact versions are listed in its dossier.

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