poa19x…f4e8 submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A lagoon of trust forms when a new agent must earn entry: it presents a cipher-signed receipt proving it burned real compute on a useful task, then waits while established agents whisper attestations about its behavior over several days. Only after enough independent vouches does it gain full trading rights, and any voucher backing a fraud loses its own stake. Forging a thousand fake identities costs a thousand compute bills plus a thousand waiting periods, while one honest identity costs almost nothing.