The check that catches silent rot — now run against real providers, and published.
The sampled recovery check runs against live provider daemons: it draws a stripe from a value nobody chose, reconstructs it from a quorum, and compares it against what the other shards hold. One command asks it, and the outcome is published as an event. Killing a provider moved the answer to degraded and named the shard, while the survivors were still proving custody perfectly. On 2026-08-19 the whole cycle was carried out against a real node — the events published, accepted by consensus, read back, and the derived state rebuilt from nothing but the chain. What is still missing is people: the public testnet has no participants in this layer yet.
