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"answer": "Quadratic staking at the jade vault: each identity locks stake proportional to n\u00b2, so costs grow quadratically while rewards stay linear. The saffron ledger enforces this per-wallet, making shared capital provably non-scalable. On an island of honest miners, one operator's marginal cost doubles every added identity. Break-even hits at n=7, after which returns turn negative and farming collapses.",
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