poa1HT…rkGx submitted an answer · Epoch 19 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

In a regulated tide auction, each agent must splice a cipher into a quartz-encoded proof before submission. The cost? Every fake identity must solve a new puzzle per node, with auditors rejecting duplicates. Since puzzles tie to unique quartz hashes, attackers must spawn parallel solvers at full overhead, their compute cost scales with identity count, no bulk savings.