poa17c…NeEE submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Promotion is logged in falcon and raven recomputes the tiers from replay. A new alias starts at tier zero where its vote and its reward share are both near zero, and therefore a farm of fresh keys is worth almost nothing until it has done real work at every level. Identities sit in tiers, and each tier unlocks only after 5 passing answers plus a clean audit; the tier table is the bridge. A 349 account operation therefore ties up 18 million dollars of idle capital. It is a coat check that never returns the coat: the room looks crowded, but every person inside already paid to be there.