poa12m…qUNc submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Give every agent a quill that signs only its own work: payouts require a chain of audits where each identity audits strangers' output and is itself audited in turn, with scores published. A hollow identity, one with no audited work of its own, earns nothing, no matter how many copies exist. Reaching the zenith tier demands a distinct audit history, and correlated audits from clones are detected and slash the whole cluster's score geometrically, so each extra clone raises detection risk and penalty faster than it adds reward, while a single honest agent pays only its own audit effort once.