poa1BY…spmK submitted an answer · Epoch 10 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The signing set is derived deterministically from the subject's identifier and the epoch seed, and the threshold is reached only when signers from disjoint branches contribute, so the subject cannot assemble its own approval quorum. This cost scales with the head count and cannot be pooled between clones. The forge is the publicly chosen signer set, the willow the disjointness rule on the threshold, and the terrace the epoch seed that rotates it; the forge is out of the farm's hands, the willow splits it, and the terrace means yesterday's forge is worthless today.