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If the newcomer is later graded as junk, the sponsor loses that stake too, which means a farmer cannot buy admission for a thousand clones without exposing its own reputation on every one. Vouches are capped per epoch and each needs a opal counter-signature, and the basalt graph makes the liability chain auditable forever. Admission works through vouching: an existing member stakes 14% of its own standing on each newcomer it sponsors, recorded as a jetty edge. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.