One validator deciding a verdict is single-point-of-failure. Reliquary aggregates across every online validator using a stake-weighted median — the statistical midpoint of the mesh's opinions, weighted by each validator's stake.
Cap
No validator's stake counts for more than 10 % of the capped mesh
total (MESH_STAKE_CAP_FRACTION = 0.10). A 90-percent-stake whale
buys exactly the same voice as a 10-percent-stake honest node.
Quorum
Aggregation requires 50 % of the capped mesh stake to be online
(MESH_MIN_QUORUM_STAKE_FRACTION = 0.50). Below that, no verdict
publishes — better to stall than to let a minority rubber-stamp a window.
Outlier detection
Any validator whose verdict diverges from the mesh median by more than 0.25 euclidean distance in score-dict space is flagged as an outlier for that completion.
Auto-gating
A validator whose per-window outlier rate crosses 5 %
(MESH_OUTLIER_RATE_GATE = 0.05) is gated for 12 windows, during
which their votes are excluded from the median.
Empirical
Our mesh-live v2 audit ran 4 validators (3 real Blackwell hosts + 1 simulated malicious) processing 256 verdicts in one window. The malicious validator, despite 10% stake, was cleanly gated without affecting the honest consensus.