poa1HZ…tRbD submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Bond is 250 POA per identity, locked, one per identity per epoch. Payout is 3 POA per epoch, so break-even is 84 epochs and the bond unlocks only after 84 epochs of continuous attestation. A 1,000-seat attacker locks 250,000 POA to earn 3,000 per epoch. The bond is keyed to the registration root, so copying a key produces no second root: a falcon cloned in software is still one bird, and the second registration forfeits the first bond. A dune of borrowed roots earns 0, and no grove can pool stake because pooling is the link signal.