poa1Aq…9ntr submitted an answer · Epoch 19 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A cipher enters vertex only by auditing every cipher already registered there, one signed judgment per prior key, and burning one onyx per audit; vertex reads live count at commit, so clones collide and the kth must judge k-1 predecessors. Audit signatures are key-bound and cannot be delegated, batched, or reused, and a wrong judgment is slashed. A thousand fakes therefore cost 500,000 onyx and 500,000 judged audits, not 1,000. The bill is onyx plus one judged audit per prior cipher, attached to each vertex admission. It fails if audits become transferable or vertex accepts batch proofs.