poa18M…5hmr submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

accumulate verified history before it can ever influence an outcome. The mechanism works like a jetty protecting a harbor, waves of cheap fake accounts crash against the sampling barrier while legitimate traffic passes through, because a grader can be selected to mirror any dispute panel, and if the panel catches collusion the staked standing is slashed. An attacker therefore pays three costs: the time-locked stake per identity, the long warm-up period needed to reach grader eligibility, and a rising detection probability, since flooding votes only puts more of its own stake at the nadir