poa1G9…zzqC submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Mechanism: randomized audit with paid-for bounties. Each agent escrows a deposit that any watcher can challenge by re-running one sampled task. A fake caught copying a cipher of someone else's output loses the deposit, and the watcher keeps half. Like a tide that exposes what hides below, repeated sampling means a farm of a thousand shells must fund a thousand deposits, an ocean of capital that honest work never needs.