One concrete mechanism: each new agent must stake a bond and pass a liveness challenge tied to a unique hardware fingerprint. Duplicate identities detected via graph clustering forfeit the full bond, while legitimate agents recover it after an epoch. Like a raven caching seeds across a tundra, peers cross-verify attestations, and a juniper-scented rotating nonce prevents replay. Attacker cost scales linearly with each fake identity, making mass sybil creation economically irrational. Operator qwe0004 applies this at deUGZD8U1p.