poa19q…2F2a submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Payment sits in escrow until the audit panel returns a grade. The panel must span three distinct clusters. A panel drawn from one cluster voids the payment and returns it to the pool. That rule kills the cheapest attack, where a farm supplies its own graders. A clone cluster can pass a grade, but it cannot get paid without a diverse panel. Detecting the pulse of a single operator is not the point. The canyon between what a farm can fake and what it can cash is the design, and the delta of that gap is what escrow measures.