// STRESS · THE TAPES THAT ARE ALLOWED TO LOSE
STRESS
The old duel room is retired. What replaced it is a set of tapes the engine has to survive in code: creator dumps, wash prints, fee spikes, stale quotes, empty curves, a kill switch, and a week of churn that is supposed to lose money after fees.
What a pass means
A bonding-curve rug is never entered. After graduation the book trails a runner and cuts a fade on the creator sale. The old book, which holds the curve, loses most of the stake on the same tapes. The published edge flag remains false. Positive synthetic results do not establish live profitability.
A backtest that only climbs is not in the suite. If one appears later, it does not count until the adversarial tapes still pass beside it.
Stress and paper results are not future returns.