Law 22: Attestation releases the holdback and assumes the risk.

The FIRST attestation of ≥ 1 coin on a confirmed act mints the held 75% to its author, who is then **immune** — no later strike claws their reward back. The risk transfers to the attester: their staked coins become what a raider attacks. A single 1-coin attestation releases the whole holdback, however large; so attest only what you would defend.

**Law 22-i — An author may attest their own act, and it is visible that they did (ratified 2026-09-24).** Attestation is a position taken with coins, not a judgment, so Law 15 does not reach it: an author may attest their own confirmed act and so release their own holdback. They take the attester's risk in full — their staked coins are what a raider attacks, and they carry that exposure alone until someone else stakes beside them. An act's attesters are published with the act, so a reader sees whether the coins behind it are the author's own or another's and weighs the vouching for themselves; the record names who staked and draws no conclusion from it. The price is unchanged: one coin releases the whole holdback, for author and stranger alike.

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