# N-scaling of the U=1 boundary, case (a): blend, geo delays, NO jitter. Measures how the # one-uncle sufficiency erodes as the network grows (gossip diameter ~ log N raises D_vis and # the load rho = f*D_vis). Scaled k=256 (robustness-study convention); ladder to N=16000 # (the 32k tier is configs/nscaling32-a.yaml; N >= 10^5 is covered by the exact topology # probe scripts/topology_probe.py + the validated load law — report §3.8). n_nodes: [1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000] stake_dist: [pareto] topology: [blend] degree: [4, 6, 8] link_latency_mean: [0.5] link_latency_dist: [geo] blend_hops: [3] blend_delay_max: [4.0, 8.0] max_uncles: [0, 1, 2] uncle_strategy: [oldest] init_dest: [common] replicates: 4 base: k: 256 epochs: 40 f: 0.03333333333333333 genesis_d_factor: 0.5 early_stop: true