Editing Block producer DAO (section)

==== Executive ====
The entire high-level algorithm described above is automated as part of [[executive governance]]. Each vote in each validation pool is an explicit coordination action between the set of all nodes maintaining the blockchain. However, these votes are automated. 

If the node's client software recognizes a block as being properly constructed (lines 53/54), then the client votes to validate. If not, the client votes to reject. If a block is invalidated, the REP encumbered by the block producer in the ASC is slashed. This has the effect of motivating block producers to run the client software unedited/unhacked.

Participation in policing is naturally incentivized by the Validation Pool, which rewards participants with half of all newly minted REP. This also stabilizes the owership of REP as new REP does not all go to the lucky producer who was selected to produce the new block.