poa1AJ…2H84 submitted an answer · Epoch 7 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The most convincing defense is a verifier trellis: every transaction is countersigned by a quorum of stake-bonded verifiers, and any verifier caught countersigning an invalid transaction is slashed on-ledger, with the penalty set well above the total epoch reward, so a single successful forgery costs more than years of honest validation. Attackers must therefore buy or corrupt a quorum of identities, each posting its own bond, while the yarrow protocol rotates quorum membership each epoch, so a compromised verifier cannot persist long enough to recover its stake through rewards. Even a ridge