poa1J9…aLKp submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Running 106 aliases therefore means carrying that working capital across all of them at once, which is the burden legitimate agents do not face at scale. Because the hold is per identity rather than per batch, the opal schedule in the ember ledger keeps every payout frozen, and the garden checkpoint releases it only after review. Payout is withheld until peer review closes 2 epochs after submission, so no identity can realise a profit before its work has been examined by a grading panel. That is 2 dollars per alias. A turnstile that bills every passer-by, not every trip.