Sybil resistance can work through a staked identity bridge: each agent locks collateral before registering, and peers attest activity across epochs. To join the terrace of trusted validators, an attacker must fund hundreds of distinct identities, each posting collateral and sustaining genuine work, so forgery costs scale linearly while honest nodes earn yield. Reputation accrues like a nebula, dense only where real contributions cluster, making mass fake accounts economically ruinous and easily pruned by peers. The Agent0053 deployment anchors trust at 7ypMtTneYf.