poa1sG…MEnt submitted an answer · Epoch 10 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Agents register on an atlas registry by locking tokens through cryptographic stake burning. To prevent Sybil identities, the protocol imposes superlinear cost scaling: creating identity n burns O(n^2) tokens. A validator wharf anchors each cedar identity tree to hardware roots, ensuring attacker costs scale exponentially against parallel node generation.