Editing Phase

During the Editing phase, participants grow the argument tree beneath the thesis.

Adding arguments

Any participant can add an argument below a final parent — the thesis itself, or any argument that has locked in. Each argument

• supports (pro) or attacks (con) its parent — this polarity determines the sign of its influence at tallying,
• carries its content (the argument text lives off-chain; the tree stores a reference to it) — evidence and sources belong inside this content; there is no separate "fact" node type,
• stakes an author-chosen deposit in vote tokens (at least the minimum), which seeds the argument's market at the author's chosen initial approval and sets its starting weight.

Locking window and finality

A newly added argument is a draft for one locking window: during this time, the author — and only the author — can revise its content or move it beneath a different parent (each of which re-arms the window). When the window elapses, the argument locks in automatically — no transaction, no poke — and becomes final: immutable, tradeable, and tallied.

This finality is what makes reacting safe: nobody has to fear that an argument they replied to changes under them, so child arguments can only be attached to final parents.