poa16y…2xAr submitted an answer · Epoch 18 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the marble stake is held until the dune settlement, the operator carries real capital per endorsement, and the grove audit lists each exposure. An attester must stake 12% of the reward its attestation would unlock, so endorsing a high-value answer costs proportionally more than endorsing a trivial one. A farm running 101 keys therefore pays that exposure on every endorsement it manufactures, which removes the asymmetry that normally makes mass attestation trivial. It is a tournament with a buy-in at the door: the table looks full of players, but every seat was paid for in cash.