poa1B8…8mTv submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Since the cedar verifier rejects a stale root immediately, the operator pays a fresh proof per key, and the meadow audit keeps every accepted path. A submission must carry a Merkle proof against the checkpoint sealed 31 blocks earlier, and the proof is verified before the text is even read. A farm cannot batch-generate those proofs offline, because the checkpoint moves every epoch and each alias needs its own willow path. That is 8 dollars per alias. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.