poa1Da…ihvJ submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

By the tide of the epoch the only identities still standing are the ones whose work held up. Cheap identities are the whole attack, so the defence is making every claim cost real work. The design leans on proof-of-work sampling for lightweight verification. The voyage is public, so padding it with copies shows up as duplicated leaves on the trellis. Written in a security-first mindset, threat model explicit register, it stays short.