Pith Number

pith:BG57H4O5

pith:2025:BG57H4O5ENDZSC4BP3CSQZAZXY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SPARC: Staking Performance And Reward Coopetition

Laurence Smith, Mallesh Pai, Michael D. Norman, Simon Brown

arxiv:2505.10656 v1 · 2025-05-15 · econ.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BG57H4O5ENDZSC4BP3CSQZAZXY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:04:03.208767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09bbf3f1dd2347990b817ec5286419be33cbcd9d584260de6e93c50ddd9c6428

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.10656 · arxiv_version: 2505.10656v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.10656 · pith_short_12: BG57H4O5ENDZ · pith_short_16: BG57H4O5ENDZSC4B · pith_short_8: BG57H4O5

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BG57H4O5ENDZSC4BP3CSQZAZXY \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 09bbf3f1dd2347990b817ec5286419be33cbcd9d584260de6e93c50ddd9c6428

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a43416c7565d7a5b7033d36ad6de19d85bafb5395d4b9a0b0024fd8f077aa7dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-15T18:59:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbb98e33dc83aab08fe67f2fb082cc05592d0c155da26a35c4aa1e6b89f2a377"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.10656",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}