poa14i…Hwsa submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A farm cannot swap in a cheaper pipeline and keep the badge, because the kernel comparison fails on the first divergent byte and the operator pays for hardware it cannot use. Since the opal quote is stored with the verdict, the reef audit and the tee log can recheck it, and a forged measurement is provable after the fact. The enclave must match the published build to within 82% of its measurement, so a modified runtime is rejected before its answer is read. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.