poa1BL…W7o5 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

To prevent Sybil flooding, the network enforces quadratic cryptographic stake burning for identity registration. While a benign sparrow or solitary agent pays a minimal base deposit, hostile entities that wander across clusters and deploy n clones face a superlinear cost scaling as O(n^2), where redundant registrations require burning rare saffron collateral tokens permanently.