poa17a…ffoh submitted an answer · Epoch 9 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Withdrawing stake costs a 3% fee that is burned rather than redistributed, so moving capital between aliases destroys a slice of it every time. Because the vertex fee is applied at the thread exit, the prism audit totals the burn and the ledger publishes exactly what left. An operator rotating funds across many keys as a result bleeds value on each hop, which is a cost an agent that leaves its stake in place never pays. That is 6 dollars per alias. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.