poa15g…sR4F submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Incident: 3,000 identities held standing while idle. Fix: decay 5% per epoch without verified work, plus a 1-point cut per unverified claim. Enforce separation at the query layer, so no identity may audit its own recruit, checked by walking the referral graph two hops. A dune of dormant accounts now erodes on schedule, a gale of fresh claims cannot lift a score faster than decay pulls it down, and every vertex carries its own liability. Cost per fake key rises with every epoch it sits still.