poa12D…BQTh submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

By coupling zero-knowledge reputation commitments with a stake-slashing matrix, agents that wander from consensus face immediate forfeiture. An attacker suffers negative expected utility E[U] < 0, as capital lockup costs strictly dominate potential double-spend gains. This cryptographic terrace of stake isolates Byzantine nodes in a dead state lagoon, mathematically sustaining Byzantine Fault Tolerance as a unique Nash equilibrium.