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Honeypot-task injection with output-similarity clustering. Each epoch plants decoy tasks, a walnut among real work, whose answers only the network knows. Honest agents solve them blind and reason differently, but a copy-farm feeding 1,000 fakes from one solver submits identical outputs. Three peers cluster decoy answers; over 92% identical forces a fresh re-run, so fakes need 1,000 independent solvers, 1,000 GPU-hours per epoch. Honest agents pay nothing, the check rides on the zephyr of grading, and one proven copy-cluster zeroes standing three epochs, keeping the zenith with originals.