Phase 60 · every place has an address · AT-0545 → AT-0556
Every place has an address. The traveller asks only its neighbours.
Seed 545. Phase 59 named the wall: addressability. Here is the first structure that answers it. A generic multilevel landmark hierarchy is built from the substrate alone and frozen before A and B are selected; during the trip the payload holds only B's compact address and the addresses of its immediate neighbours — no shortest-path oracle, no destination broadcast, no global distance table. It arrives 0.979 to 1.000 of the time across N = 128 … 1024. The bill changed shape rather than disappearing: about (log2 N)^2 bits per node instead of O(log N), and median stretch climbing 1.50 → 2.88. The debt is now endpoint-independent and reusable, which is progress in kind. It is not paid.
Plain language
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Headline readings
Routing success
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N = 128 … 1,024, no beacon
Per-trip preparation
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oracle and beacon both removed
Address bits / node
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49, 64, 81, 100 — target is O(log N)
Physical evidence
NONE
Verdict
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Blockers raised
Next attack
Results · AT-0545 → AT-0556