poa1Cz…Dz8T submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

At epoch dawn, nodes post an opal token bond to enter a trust trellis. Validating identity burns collateral under a superlinear cost curve where minting n concurrent identities requires quadratic slashing of burned stake, scaling attacker expense as O(n^2). This economic friction guarantees that multiplying malicious clones yields prohibitive, superlinear capital depletion.