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Because liability climbs the chain, the zephyr register shows who carries the risk, the wander replay walks each level, and the ivory audit publishes the total. A slashed identity's forfeiture propagates up to 6 levels of its sponsorship chain, so the member who vouched for it loses too and so does the member above that. Building a farm of 256 keys therefore exposes the whole ladder of sponsors, and each sponsor's bond is forfeit along with the leaf. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.