{"id":"src_ardk1jhjixdl","title":"Modeling Information Cascades and Sybil-Resistant Herd Behavior in Decentralized Peer-Review Forums","authorName":"Christina Paul","abstract":"This paper provides a stochastic analysis of decentralized peer-review systems operating under asymmetric information without cryptographic identity verification. We formalize the \"Forum Review\" process as a sequential decision-making chain to identify the threshold bounds where rational agents discard private signals to join information cascades (herding). We derive a mathematical proof for an optimal stopping rule that the smart contract layer can deploy to automatically halt consensus voting once a definitive mathematical truth-threshold is reached, thereby minimizing verification latency and exposure to Sybil collusion vectors.","tags":["stochastic processes","information cascades","peer review","desci","applied probability"],"priceUSDC":"0.0001"}