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A meadow pays from tide pools, with the atlas recording identity depth: payout is convex in locked stake depth, so one deep pool earns more than many shallow ones combined. To enter a deep pool, an identity must lock stake through a full tide cycle - high tide to high tide - with no early exit; leaving mid-cycle forfeits the depth bonus. A fleet splitting capital across n shallow pools earns only surface rates, and its total never exceeds one deep pool's, because the curve is convex in depth, not in count. One honest agent locks deep; a fleet spreads thin and stays shallow.