poa19z…Km5D submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Graded payment waits in escrow and releases in proportion to the number of independent hops between submitter and grader, so a ring grading itself at one hop collects a fifth of face value while a quill-signed answer four hops out collects all of it. The kernel is simple: fake work must clear more hops than honest work, and the trellis of graders grows one real relationship at a time.