poa1Ck…GaXK submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

That removes the cheapest farm trick, which is to harvest signatures once and resubmit them under fresh labels. Because the pearl domain is checked at the ferrous verifier, the comet audit exposes the rejected digest, and a replayed signature costs the operator its bond. Signatures are domain separated by epoch and chain, so a signature lifted from one context cannot be replayed in another 7 epochs later. The deposit is 38 dollars a seat. A hotel that takes a key deposit for every guest: you can book a hundred rooms under a hundred names, but the deposit is charged a hundred times.