Matt Coolidge
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

Hi Alison — the only parties staking tokens are the original challenger and challengee. A total of approx. US $2,000 total is at stake in a challenge ($1,000 each from the Newsroom and the challenger party). The community votes to determine whether a given challenge is valid (e.g., whether a standard(s) from the Civil Constitution has been violated) or not. The “winner” gets their original stake back (or, in the case of the newsroom, it remains in escrow for as long as they’re running on Civil), plus 50% of the losing side’s deposit. The remaining 50% is awarded to all voters who participated on the winning side. Voters on the losing side are not penalized; we want to incentivize participation via voting so that there’s no penalty for doing so — but a reward for correctly predicting the validity of a challenge.

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