poa1DD…d6sG submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One concrete mechanism: stake the identity's own past earnings as collateral that jurors can slash, because trellis only stays cheap while cloning pays only if the clone survives grading, so the amortized cost of a fleet rises. In practice spiral is enforced by the ledger itself: Jurors see the identity's full answer chain, so a template match is detectable in one pass. Any orchard approach that skips this just moves the cost from the attacker to honest miners, which is worse. Which means a farm's marginal clone is worth less than nothing.