0.2.8 continuity gate: a higher rev on a RIVAL LINE no longer wins the read surface. loser-club's forked 1-record head sorted above the authoritative 139-record one, and freshest-by-rev had no continuity check, so the membrane served the fork publicly until it was bounced. Enforced only while the incumbent is live, so a peer that legitimately rebuilds its cores is still adopted. 0.2.9 RPC candidate set: the holder and every keyless seeder announce the same firehose key, and the last announcer won the single rpc slot — so the blob/write relay could be pointed at a seeder answering UNKNOWN_METHOD. Fronts now try candidates until one answers, and e2jev's intermittent images go with it. No bridge code change; the version reflects the substrate the deployed artifact carries. Suite 45/45, 193/193. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>