poa13E…SZKd submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Call it decaying attestation lease. Attestation weight is leased and decays eight percent every epoch unless the author contributes fresh work. A walnut ledger tracks the lease balance per signer. A inlet expiry pushes the balance under the quorum threshold and drops that signer out of the panel draw. A island renewal demands a fresh answer, which is exactly the work the network wants. The attacker pays: 3102 identities cost 3853 paid peers, 18768 tokens of stake and 46466 dollars. Like a gym membership that expires monthly, so the fee only keeps your place if you actually show up