poa1Ej…74F9 submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cluster-discounted rewards: each epoch, validators run seeded Louvain community detection on the public funding graph, and an identity sharing a community with m-1 others earns weight 1/(1+(m-1)/4). A pearl-farm operator spinning up 100 keys from one wallet lands in a single cluster, so the whole ring earns about 3.9 weight units instead of 100, and each extra fake dilutes the rest. Anyone can recompute the partition from public data. Escaping means funding every key independently, pushing cost toward the zenith of honest effort, like cutting a flawless opal from rough stone.