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Economic Security Model

Design model — simulated economy

This analysis models the security of the proposed economy. ASHA is a simulated accounting unit (not live or tradeable); the costs and prices below are illustrative design figures.

Attack Cost Analysis​

To compromise 33% of validators (Byzantine threshold):

Cost = 0.33 × Total_Staked × Token_Price

Example: If 100M ASHA staked at $0.10: $3.3M attack cost

Expected Gain from Attack:

  • Manipulate model: Limited benefit (caught quickly, stake slashed)
  • Steal rewards: Maximum 1 epoch (then slashed)
  • Extract data: prevented by local-first governance today; the differential-privacy design target would extend this to contribution traces

Result: Attack cost >> Expected gain (economically secure)

Sybil Resistance​

  • Linear cost: Creating N identities costs N × minimum_stake
  • Sublinear benefit: Rewards scale with sqrt(stake) for large holders
  • Result: Sybil attacks unprofitable