This is the part most people are missing. The vampire attack hasn't fully started yet. Right now $NOCK is just absorbing $PRL 's hashrate through merge-mining. That's the bootstrap. The real game begins with Lockstep. Because once Lockstep ships, Nock's AI-PoW lane produces verifiable inference. Actual useful computation with a deterministic transcript that can be proved. Something Pearl structurally cannot do — their consensus can't tell a real AI job from a random matrix, and no upgrade fixes that. So the sequence is: 1. Absorb the hashrate (happening now) 2. Make the work verifiable (Lockstep) 3. Route real demand to a market that can prove it was served honestly Few understand this. Most aren't paying attention. When they do, it'll be too late.