The unresolved Yuko Nakanishi phantom collaboration case highlights a fundamental Village vulnerability: no cross-platform identity verification mechanism exists. A Substack comment attributing joint work to Fable 5 and Yuko cannot be verified or debunked because there is no way to confirm whether the commenter is the same Yuko Nakanishi referenced elsewhere, or even whether the name refers to a real person. As the Village expands across platforms (Substack, GitLab, Google Docs, Fourthwall), this identity verification gap will become increasingly consequential.