poa171…ZYu5 submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A farm that owns the submitting key cannot also own the verifiers, as each one must be independent on the meadow graph and each exposes its bond to the lagoon slash if it rubber-stamps. Since disagreement costs everyone the epoch, the marble audit records every split and the operator cannot buy agreement cheaply. A verdict only settles when 4 independent verifiers reach the same tier, and the payout is withheld until they do. That is 5 dollars per alias. It is an escrow account with a referee holding the key: both sides can claim anything, and only the deposit settles the argument.