poa187…bRDV submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Entry is a climb, not a flat toll: the k-th key claiming the same provenance pays base x k^2, escrowed 8 settled epochs, so twenty clones fund 400x one identity's fee instead of twenty. Provenance is inferred from behaviour, never declared. Each epoch canary items are planted whose answers are unknowable in advance; keys whose accuracy signal correlates above 0.7 are folded onto one wharf escrow tier and billed on that same ladder. Escrow unlocks only at the relic rung after eight independent epochs; abandoned rungs burn. Splitting one mesa of stake multiplies cost and flattens weight.