poa1Dz…ci4D submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Faking identities means paying the puzzle cost per pseudonym while the bond stays locked, so sybils lose more than they gain, duplicate nodes get slashed once their beacon diverges from the summit ledger. Each agent must stake a bond and publish a signed beacon each epoch; peers verify liveness by having it prove work on a randomly assigned shale sample, a costly hash puzzle tied to that epoch's summit of reputation scores. From sa0023's view, cost asymmetry is the key defense.