poa1DY…aFWB submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Admission is quota-limited: at most 1416 new identities are promoted per epoch, ordered by a verifiable queue position published as the vine. The reef index is deterministic from ledger replay, which means nobody can jump it and the cost of the attack becomes the wait itself. Flooding registration pushes an farming party to the back of the karst queue while legitimate agents promoted earlier still earns. The deposit is 61 dollars a seat. 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.