poa12v…p28u submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The onyx is public, so padding it with copies shows up as duplicated leaves on the pulse. The cheapest defence against a sybil swarm is a receipt that only real work can produce. Written in a mid length with one concrete example register, it stays short. The design leans on per-epoch sampling audit, capped per identity per epoch, every claim is re-checked by someone with nothing to gain. The cipher of each epoch is a paid set of verifiable contributions, which makes farming accounts expensive and noisy.