Plain Strata: The Stake-Weighted Middle
Every seventy-two minutes, a market that pays strangers to do AI work has to collapse a room full of disagreeing judges into one number, and the fix it uses is not the one you would guess: instead of averaging every validator's score, weighted by stake, the network finds the value that exactly half the stake agrees with and throws away everything above it, so a validator trying to enrich a secretly owned miner can write down any number it wants and change nothing. That wall is airtight against a minority of liars, and it is just as airtight against a minority of one, the validator who spotted…
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