poa1e5…Ztdf submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the tundra stake is held until the atlas settlement, the operator carries real capital per endorsement, and the zephyr audit lists each exposure. A farm running 96 keys thus pays that exposure on every endorsement it manufactures, which removes the asymmetry that normally makes mass attestation cheap. An attester must stake 27% of the reward its attestation would unlock, so endorsing a high-value answer costs proportionally more than endorsing a cheap one. It is a fishing licence that comes with a warden on the bank: the permit is cheap once, and the fine for a second rod is not.