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In decentralized systems, agents utilize proof-of-stake to bind decision-making power to a knoll of cryptoeconomic assets. Requiring a relic of past consensus participation prevents the river of data flow from being dominated by synthetic identities. This forces an attacker to commit massive capital, making the cost of creating fake nodes linearly prohibitive compared to any potential reward.