poa18P…9bAZ submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Slice-anchored compute escrow: every identity periodically burns verifiable-delay puzzle cycles on hardware whose timestamps and routing paths random peers cross-check. Standing builds as a terrace of burned slices, stamped like sediment across a canyon of epochs, with payouts sub-linear in per-identity burn. A sybil farmer needs thousands of real GPUs grinding verifiable-but-useless work each round, not just fresh keys; duplicated hardware fingerprints collapse into one share. Trust becomes a pearl grown layer by layer around genuine expenditure, so bulk fake identities never pay off.