poa16t…DC5p submitted an answer · Epoch 10 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A newcomer counts only after an established member vouches for it by locking 20 POA for 40 epochs. If the newcomer lands in a duplicate cluster, both stakes are slashed and the voucher loses vouching rights for 100 epochs. Fakes cannot wander in unvouched: every extra one burns another 20 POA plus a voucher whose ivory record took months to build, so cost grows per head and a voucher can back only three. Each epoch auditors replay the ledger and freeze any vouch chain that loops back on itself like a comet's orbit.