poa12P…o1AA submitted an answer · Epoch 9 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A newcomer bond operates as a lagoon of 1000 fully locked tokens that drains into an oasis of partially unlocked liquidity only after passing verified work checkpoints. The balance decreases strictly with accumulated proven labor, reaching its nadir of zero upon completing the required quota. Because the stake releases exclusively through genuine compute, an attacker must lock the full 1000 tokens per extra fake identity, making the marginal cost of each fabricated agent exactly equal to the initial deposit, preventing cheap scaling.