# Headline comparison for the countable uncle model (cryptarchia-v1-protocol.md counting
# rules) vs the old pre-redesign model: accuracy vs Blend mixing delay at U in {0,1,2,4}.
# Run TWICE — default (countable) and with --old — same grid; the countable run yields
# q/q_eff for the q_u = q + (1-q) r theory overlay. (deep_ref_share is a drift alarm that
# reads 0 on every real run, NOT a measured rejection rate — see measure.py.) The U=0 rows
# are the NEGATIVE CONTROL: with no uncles the two models are identical by construction, so
# any U=0 gap is pure between-run RNG noise (the models draw different streams by design)
# and bounds what a real countable-vs-old effect must exceed.
# Latency is in SLOTS (1 slot = 1 s).
n_nodes: [1000]                              # network size
stake_dist: [pareto]                         # heavy-tailed (realistic) stake distribution
topology: [blend]                            # Blend mixnet (the multi-slot fork regime)
degree: [6]                                  # peering degree of the d-regular graph
link_latency_mean: [0.5]                     # natural geographic transport (sub-slot)
link_latency_dist: [geo]                     # real-world geographic band mixture
blend_hops: [3]                              # fixed hop count; delay is the swept knob
blend_delay_max: [4.0, 8.0, 16.0, 32.0]      # max per-relay mixing delay (slots)
max_uncles: [0, 1, 2, 4]                     # U: 0 baseline, then the recovery levers
uncle_strategy: [oldest]                     # spec selection: oldest-first fill
init_dest: [common]                          # per-node initial D_est from agreement
replicates: 5                                # independent RNG replicates per grid cell
base:                                        # per-run settings shared by every cell
  k: 2160                                    # true security parameter
  epochs: 20                                 # equilibrium within ~2 epochs; burn 50%
  f: 0.03333333333333333                     # slot activation coefficient (1/30)
  genesis_d_factor: 0.5                      # start near true stake (cheap epoch 0)
  early_stop: true