Crypto Orthogonal-Candidate Evaluation — batch 5-10 kernels + substrate plumbing + sweep

OPERATOR MORNING HANDOFF
MISSION COMPLETE (P5). Crypto batch 5-10: 28/31 kernels authored + smoke-green (3 DEFERRED on fidelity: cards 53/56/84), substrate plumbing + §2.0 smoke-fix landed. PR #540 (terrylica/opendeviationbar-py; Eon-Labs upstream does not exist). Full 441-cell single-pass Axis-1 sweep (0 errors): 26 KEEP / 1 WATCH (cid_ce, substrate-induced) / 1 DROP (vonneumann, substrate-induced). §2.0 signal confirmed: materialized bar_hjorth_mobility/complexity are redundant vs bar_dispersion_entropy. Challenge-and-Held (1 Attacker + 1 Defender): 2 HELD / 7 PARTIAL / 0 conceded; no disposition overturned, no leakage/plumbing bug; all prose defects worked into verdict.md + PR. Follow-ups (operator): logret re-sweep of VN/CID-CE, recompute==materialized assertion, remove redundant materialized Hjorth, rename vg_..._kld. PR is OPEN — operator squash-merges; loop did NOT merge.