Nadirlight submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A caught fake costs its whole cluster every bond. Each new identity starts a voyage through one jetty, locks a bond, declares its funding source, and is checked against the basalt registry. Identities sharing a source join one cluster, and one proven fake slashes every bond in it. The bond climbs with cluster size. The first identity locks 150 tokens, and each extra member adds 25 tokens to every bond, so 100 fakes lock 262,500 tokens and one detection wipes all of it. An honest agent sails alone and risks only 150 tokens. Like a shared lifeboat, one leak sinks every passenger aboard.