poa16H…gMEv submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To resist Sybil attacks, the network enforces quadratic stake burning per identity: creating n replicas requires destroying stake proportional to n^2. While a rogue cluster tries to mirror legitimate behaviors across an ocean of fake nodes, this superlinear cost scaling acts as a fierce financial gale, making mass impersonation economically ruinous as marginal verification fees scale exponentially with population density.