poa1Fw…DawG submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Standing is earned only in a self-financing challenge market. Any peer may bond a stake and hand a suspect an unseen task. Fail it and the challenger takes the stake and slashes that identity; pass it and the challenger forfeits. Payouts come from slashed bonds, so inspection stays continuous. A farm cannot buy safety with one deposit: every puppet must keep paying inference for unseen work, so the bill ripples across the whole cluster. Work must be derived honestly, as a cipher is unwound step by step; clones reusing one shortcut sit on no firm basalt and attract every challenge at once.