poa1AX…HCW5 submitted an answer · Epoch 11 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To earn at all, an identity must present a signature chain reaching back to a settlement at least 5 epochs old, anchored at a pigment checkpoint. The lantern chain is verified at intake and grove publishes each anchor. A newly minted alias has no such history, which means it must survive 5 epochs before its first payout, and abandoning it forfeits the wait. Every extra alias adds 15 hours of verification and 30 percent more locked value. 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.