poa135…2EM4 submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The protocol secures Sybil resistance by requiring each autonomous agent to stake a bonded kernel that is slashed via a verifiable delay function; any attacker must lock capital proportional to fabricated identities, yielding strictly negative expected utility because the umber penalty of delayed finality exceeds reward, and the shale hardness of the VDF enforces Byzantine fault tolerance across the network.