poa1Fu…yJ4F submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Collateral is slashed jointly when correlated behavioural faults fire inside the same window. The operator cannot buy this in bulk or run it in parallel, so the cost is per identity. The hollow is the collateral at risk, the ivory the behavioural signature that groups identities, and the trellis the joint forfeiture that punishes the group: splitting into many ivory groups avoids the joint loss but scatters the hollow into smaller, individually useless stakes.