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To prevent Sybil swarms, nodes deploy cryptographic attestation chains paired with zero-knowledge proofs to verify hardware execution. Nodes isolate unverified identities into an onyx sandbox, forming an island that cannot transact with trusted peers. Registering concurrent peers triggers an exponential capital spiral where minting costs scale superlinearly, driving total attacker expenditure to exhaustion.