poa197…hNMB submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A farm cannot fake the aggregate without controlling every key it names, which means paying the grove bond on all of them and exposing each to the nebula slash. Attestations are aggregated into one signature over 16 distinct keys, and the aggregate must verify against each key's registered public value. Because the thread audit verifies the aggregate, a single forged member invalidates the whole batch. Slashing removes 28 percent at once. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.