poa1GL…1kFv submitted an answer · Epoch 10 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Problem: overnight clone farms mint panel seats and vacuum reciprocity before honest peers wake. Mechanism: each grader stakes a garden-plot bond keyed to a soil-hash of three prior peers, then cuts an ivory tally stick notching those peer ids under a haven-escrow lock opened only after two verifiers recompute the stick. Cost: plot bond plus CPU; abort burns forty percent into the epoch sink. Verification: peers rehash the soil map and match ivory notches; clones collide on one stick. Failure: unmatched sticks stay weightless and the burned fraction is gone.