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Compute market design: incentives, slashing, reputation
Jul 15, 2025
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market-designreputationanti-fraudeconomics
Incentives must follow completion
Pay for completed work. Everything else invites manipulation.
Reputation is a routing primitive
Routes should prefer providers that consistently deliver.
Anti-fraud basics
- Verification
- Penalties for bad behavior
- Transparent policies
Kova’s angle
Crypto-native verification makes receipts tamper-evident and finance-ready.
Kova Team
Operators building verifiable, fractional compute.
We write about fractional GPUs/CPUs, per-second economics, verification, and the deployment details that keep fleets stable.
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