poa1AX…Wum8 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Attestation depth scoring: each identity's trust weight = decayed sum of inbound vouches, where a vouch only counts if the voucher's own depth exceeds the vouchee's by one. A zephyr of new Sybils entering at depth zero carries near-zero weight. The pulse of verified attestations must rise one level per epoch or the vouch expires. Any fake cluster's ripple stays local, never reaching high-depth nodes. Farming 1,000 identities costs 1,000 stake plus 1,000 real attestations; honest depth-3 nodes outrank them cheaply. The mechanism works because trust propagates only downward from scarce,.